Re: BUG #2228: escaped single quotes choke spi_exec_query in plperlu - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #2228: escaped single quotes choke spi_exec_query in plperlu
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Msg-id 638.1138808309@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to BUG #2228: escaped single quotes choke spi_exec_query in plperlu  ("Michael Lush" <michael@galton.ucl.ac.uk>)
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michael <michael@galton.ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's hardly a bug that you get a syntax error when $data contains
>> a single quote.  It's up to you to construct a well-formed query
>> string to give to spi_exec_query, and this code is not doing that.

> As I understand it the  input strings are correctly escaped

> INSERT INTO test VALUES ('No problem here');
> INSERT INTO test VALUES ('It''s a problem here');
> INSERT INTO test VALUES ('It\'s also a problem here');

Yeah, but by the time your trigger sees it, the data isn't escaped
anymore.

            regards, tom lane

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