psql -U postgres
psql (9.2.3)
Type "help" for help.
postgres=# select encode('can''t', 'escape');
encode
--------
can't
(1 row)
I observed the same behaviour on one of our older systems (8.3.11) as well.
Am I missing something? I expected "can''t" as the output.
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