Hi,
I am constructing a tsvector representation of some text manually
because I need to provide explicit positional parameters. In some cases,
the conversion fails and I get a "syntax error in tsvector".
This is a minimal example that goes wrong (but shouldn't IMHO:
> SELECT format('%L:1', '\:')::tsvector
My expectation here is that %L would transform '\:' into a correctly
formatted character string, including single quotes around the string.
The documentation reads:
> L quotes the argument value as an SQL literal
> SELECT $$'\:':1$$
returns «'\:':1», but
> SELECT $$'\:':1$$::tsvector
returns «':':1», so something is happening here inside the single-quoted
lexemes to the backslash. My understanding is that everything inside
single quotes is taken as a lexeme. From the documentation:
> To represent lexemes containing whitespace or punctuation, surround them with quotes
So having everything surrounded by single quotes (followed by a
positional argument after the colon), «$$'\:':1$$::tsvector» should
actually return a vector with a single lexeme «\:» at position 1.
Am I missing something?
Regards
Johannes
