Thread: Quoting routines in libpq
Hello, Just a small question: why there is not any quoting routine in libpq. This is very handy to have one. And also it is quite hard always write quoting routing for database if you want to have cross database code. -- Sincerely Yours, Denis Perchine ---------------------------------- E-Mail: dyp@perchine.com HomePage: http://www.perchine.com/dyp/ FidoNet: 2:5000/120.5 ----------------------------------
Denis Perchine writes: > Just a small question: why there is not any quoting routine in libpq. Can you give an example of what it should do? -- Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115 peter_e@gmx.net 75262 Uppsala http://yi.org/peter-e/ Sweden
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Denis Perchine writes: > > > Just a small question: why there is not any quoting routine in libpq. > > Can you give an example of what it should do? Just as a guess, something that parses a string and escapes single quotes, backslashes and stuff like that. I rolled my own for apps that I worked on that needed one, lately I've been using PHP which has such a function and a reversing function. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com ==========================================================================
> > > Just a small question: why there is not any quoting routine in libpq. > > > > Can you give an example of what it should do? > > Just as a guess, something that parses a string and escapes single quotes, > backslashes and stuff like that. I rolled my own for apps that I worked > on that needed one, lately I've been using PHP which has such a function > and a reversing function. You are perfectly right!!! :-)))) Problem is that for each database you should escape their own set of chars. And also there are lots of escaping types. Like some DBs prefer to escape single quote as two single quotes, some as slash and single quote. -- Sincerely Yours, Denis Perchine ---------------------------------- E-Mail: dyp@perchine.com HomePage: http://www.perchine.com/dyp/ FidoNet: 2:5000/120.5 ----------------------------------