Re: Escape double-quotes in text[]?

From: Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
To: 'PostgreSQL' <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Escape double-quotes in text[]?
Date: 2014-04-29 21:13:23
Message-ID: 536015F3.2030408@iol.ie
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On 29/04/2014 22:10, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Probably a silly question, but I'm having trouble figuring out the
> answer... if I'm constructing an string representation of a value to go
> into a text[] column, and one of the text literals includes
> double-quotes, do I need to escape the literal?
>
> For example, can I insert something like this into a text[] column
> directly? -
>
> '{"abc", "de"f"}'
>
> Or would I need to do this? -
>
> E'{"abc", "de"f"}'
>
> ....or something different again? I'm doing this from PHP via the Zend
> framework (v.1) if it makes any difference.

....and I should have mentioned that I'm on PostgreSQL 9.3.

R.

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Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
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