escaping the ' - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Andy Lewis
Subject escaping the '
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.3.95.980522085023.14868A-100000@shell.mpsi.net
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Responses Re: [SQL] escaping the '
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I am running Postgres 6.3.2 / PHP 3.0 on Linux 2.0.30.

I have a table that has 16 text fields in it. I have a PHP form that allows a
user to enter info into that field. When a user enters an ' as in " item's " the
query will fail. I have played around with it and can execute the query without
error if I escape the ' . Such as " item\'s "

Here's the big question:

Is there anyway other than doing a ereg_replace(); in PHP to get around this
problem? If I do a ereg_replace("'", "\'", $f1) in the PHP file and execute it,
I have no problem. I dont recall having this problem in the earlier version of
Postgres.

As always, thanks in advance!

Andy



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