Re: Altering a column if it exists

David Johnston wrote
>
> Tom Lane-2 wrote
>>> END$$;
>>
>> If you dig down through all the Java noise, the problem reported by the
>> database server is:
>>
>>> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: unterminated dollar-quoted
>>> string
>>
>> So apparently something on the client side is splitting this into more
>> than one command to be sent to the server; it looks like that something
>> thinks the first semicolon terminates the command, even though it's
>> inside
>> a quoted string. Most likely, that code doesn't understand
>> dollar-quoting
>> at all.
> More likely it is the fact that you do not have a space between "END" and
> the "$$".
>
> In certain situations there can be a problem using dollar-quoting with
> JDBC - mainly in regards to JDBC-compliant escaping but I do not recall
> the specifics at the moment - but a straight literal $$...$$ block works
> just fine.
>
> David J.

Not sure what I was thinking here but the space-issue cannot be right though
the "END" does need a semi-colon to be valid pl/pgsql. Normally after the
semi-colon you would have a newline and then the closing dollar-quotes.
That layout is what I was looking for but mis-translated it into a
white-space error which is obviously wrong since $$somevalue$$ is indeed
valid.

David J.

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