"Mitch Vincent" <mvincent@cablespeed.com> writes:
> Perhaps I'm not thinking correctly but isn't it the job of the application
> that's using the libpq library to escape special characters?
Yes, it is.
> I guess I don't see a down side though, if it's implemented
> correctly to check and see if characters are already escaped before
> escaping them (else major breakage of existing application would
> occur)..
You can't do this automatically because the strings needing escaping
are not marked in any way at the moment.
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