Re: Weird double single quote issue

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter <peter(at)greatnowhere(dot)com> writes:
>
>>2. No. In fact I can replicate the problem on the same computer using
>>PgAdmin (connecting as two different users)
>>3. I can isolate the part but it does not help much. I'm even doing
>>RAISE NOTICE and printing out the actual SQL statement that is being
>>executed... and it's IDENTICAL for both users yet returns different
>>values. Executing exactly the same SQL statement from commandline
>>produces identical results for both users.
>
>
> It's really pretty hard to believe that the same function would work
> differently for two different users. I'm wondering if maybe the two
> users aren't executing the same function --- perhaps not the specific
> one you are looking at, but some other one it depends on. Do the
> users have different search_path settings?
>

I'm thinking that the data returned might be dependent upon the user. Is
this the case? And can any of those columns used in the proc be NULL?
Frankly, i couldn't read it very well (but then, i'm on my first cup of
coffee this morning), but i'm wondering if the problem lies somewhere in
between the dollar-quoting and coalesce().

brian