| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com> |
| Cc: | marcelo Cortez <jmdc_marcelo(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)ar>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: string fields helps |
| Date: | 2007-04-17 00:28:56 |
| Message-ID: | 12517.1176769736@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com> writes:
> marcelo Cortez <jmdc_marcelo(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)ar> wrote:
>> I need to save data on rtf format but , postgres
>> refuses to storage for backslah or character's
>> problem's any idea or vice are welcomed best
> You need to escape the data before you insert it. This is language-
> dependant, but any language that has PostgreSQL libraries will have
> functions to escape text data.
Also, given that his main problem seems to be with backslashes, using
8.2 and setting standard_conforming_strings = on might help. It's still
the case that not using a proper escaping function will come back to
haunt you someday, though.
regards, tom lane
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