Re: text column constraint, newbie question

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Cook <sclists(at)gmail(dot)com>, RebeccaJ <rebeccaj(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: text column constraint, newbie question
Date: 2009-03-23 14:51:55
Message-ID: 20090323145155.GC10660@fetter.org
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 01:07:18AM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Stephen Cook <sclists(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > You should use pg_query_params() rather than build a SQL statement
> > in your code, to prevent SQL injection attacks. Also, if you are
> > going to read this data back out and show it on a web page you
> > probably should make sure there is no rogue HTML or JavaScript or
> > anything in there with htmlentities() or somesuch.
>
> Are you saying pg_quer_params is MORE effective than
> pg_escape_string at deflecting SQL injection attacks?

Yes. Much more.

Cheers,
David.
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