Re: BUG #7505: Backslash escaping not necessary - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Thomas Kellerer
Subject Re: BUG #7505: Backslash escaping not necessary
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Msg-id k1chqc$2cp$1@ger.gmane.org
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In response to BUG #7505: Backslash escaping not necessary  (ovadyaj@gmail.com)
List pgsql-bugs
ovadyaj@gmail.com wrote on 24.08.2012 21:59:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference:      7505
> Logged by:          Jeff Ovadya
> Email address:      ovadyaj@gmail.com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.1.4
> Operating system:   PostgreSQL 9.1.4, compiled by Visual C++ build 150
> Description:
>
> Also noticed similar issue escaping single quotes: Backslash will not work
> to escape, but doubling up the quotes works.

Which is the correct behaviour and conforms to the SQL standard (and nearly all other DBMS behave the same way)

But if you want to use the backslash to escape single quotes check out the parameter
"standard_conforming_strings" which controls this behaviour:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-compatible.html#GUC-STANDARD-CONFORMING-STRINGS

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