Tom,
I found the problem. It seems that a function I was calling
date_add_days(date,int)
Returned for some reason a text date + [some unprintable garbage] two
characters worth
This in turn caused the quote_literal() to fail by returning only the
initial single quote.
I resolved the problem by replacing the date_add_days() function with
date_pli() [comes with 8.1],
After doing this my problem disappeared. I am still investigating what the
cause of of the
Failure in date_add_days() was [part of my 'c' library that I ported from
gnumeric. I suspect
A memory leak [lack of pfree] in the one of the functions.
Any way thanks for taking the time to look at my issue.
Jim
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:28 PM
To: James M Doherty
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Quote_literal()
"James M Doherty" <jim@jdoherty.net> writes:
> declare
> SQL text;
> NSQL text;
> SQL := ''10/3/2009'';
> NSQL := quote_literal(SQL);
> The result is '10/3/2009 with no closing quote.
Works for me:
regression=# create function foo() returns text as '
regression'# declare SQL text;
regression'# NSQL text;
regression'# begin
regression'# SQL := ''10/3/2009'';
regression'# NSQL := quote_literal(SQL);
regression'# return NSQL;
regression'# end' language plpgsql;
CREATE FUNCTION
regression=# select foo(); foo
-------------'10/3/2009'
(1 row)
Again, I suggest giving a *complete* example, because you are obviously not
looking in the right place for your problem.
regards, tom lane
