Re: Byte Escape Syntax

Howard Yeh <hayeah(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Is Postgres's byte escape syntax something that could be set by the client?

Well, indirectly --- it's affected by the standard_conforming_strings
setting.

> I am running into a strange problem when I access postgres try two
> different Ruby ORM's. I am guessing that one of them is doing
> something funny to the client connections.

> Looking at the Ruby C-driver, it's calling PQescapeBytea rather then
> PQescapeByteaConn. And tracing PQescapeBytea, sometimes it escapes '\'
> as '\\', as describe in the manual, sometimes it doesn't do that
> escape. But it always escape the single quote character ' . All the
> connections are using UTF-8 encoding.

It would be a real good idea to fix that driver to use PQescapeByteaConn.
There are no supported releases of Postgres that don't have that
function.

regards, tom lane