Re: BUG #2228: escaped single quotes choke spi_exec_query in

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Tom Lane wrote:

> michael <michael(at)galton(dot)ucl(dot)ac(dot)uk> writes:
> > On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It's hardly a bug that you get a syntax error when $data contains
> >> a single quote. It's up to you to construct a well-formed query
> >> string to give to spi_exec_query, and this code is not doing that.
>
> > As I understand it the input strings are correctly escaped
>
> > INSERT INTO test VALUES ('No problem here');
> > INSERT INTO test VALUES ('It''s a problem here');
> > INSERT INTO test VALUES ('It\'s also a problem here');
>
> Yeah, but by the time your trigger sees it, the data isn't escaped
> anymore.

The light dawns, Thankyou very much for clearing that up for me!

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