Hi,
This may actually be more of a limitation with the DBD::Pg perl driver.
I'm not sure.
Basically I'm using DBD::Pg in a perl script which inserts data into a
very simple table.
The statement I'm using is thus :
my($sth) = $dbh->prepare("insert into maintenance (sno, date, data) values
('$sno', '$date', '$tmpstring')");
(all on one line of course...)
My problem is this. $tmpstring may well contain embedded newlines or '
characters (these are the two characters I've had problems with so far).
I don't want to go down the route of rewriting those characters into
something 'unique' and decoding whenever I extract information from the
table. That's always struck me as a bit of a kludge.
So, is it a problem with postgresql, or DBD::Pg, or (most likely) what I'm
doing with them... ?
Any help much appreciated.
Cheers,
Al
