Re: bytea char escaping - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: bytea char escaping
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Msg-id 3EF907EE.9020100@joeconway.com
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In response to Re: bytea char escaping  (Stephen Robert Norris <srn@commsecure.com.au>)
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Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 22:42, Ivar wrote:
>>What chars must be escaped in string and how exactly?
>From memory, you have to escape \ -> \\, ' -> \' and I think NULL to
> \\000. I have a feeling that you need to escape all the non-printable
> characters to \xxx escape codes, but I may be wrong there.
>
> I've just looked at my code to do all this, and I'm ashamed to say I
> can't really work out what it escapes. Must document better.

See:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=0&file=datatype-binary.html

HTH,

Joe



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