Re: Stripping apostrophes from data

From: "Leon Mergen" <leon(at)solatis(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Andrew Edson" <cheighlund(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Stripping apostrophes from data
Date: 2007-08-20 17:08:50
Message-ID: 5eaaef180708201008n2c83c88eh8a1b6445c3845c1a@mail.gmail.com
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On 8/20/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Alternately, is there some way of inserting or selecting data from the
> db which doesn't require the use of apostrophes for non-numeric fields?
>
> Uhmm just prepare all your statements and this shouldn't be an issue.
>

.. which is a good idea anyway when you're dealing with data which cannot
easily be verified as 'safe' (such as text data) -- it's a great way to
prevent all SQL injections, even when you're not expecting quotes.

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Leon Mergen
http://www.solatis.com

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