Re: Text value within composite function result not quoted

From: Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Text value within composite function result not quoted
Date: 2017-05-16 04:44:01
Message-ID: 90E64A20-E624-4283-974A-81599FBEAC98@gmail.com
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> On May 15, 2017, at 21:36 , Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> ... get this result:
>> (200,{},<body>Works!</body>)
>> This is the textual representation of the result I get in psql and Ruby. Note that the textual final value is not quoted.
>> I imagine I can work out a way to deal with this, but this is not the most felicitous way of representing a text value that I can imagine.
>> Note that if I add a single space after “Works!”, I get quotes around the string.
>
> As per spec:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/arrays.html#ARRAYS-IO <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/arrays.html#ARRAYS-IO>

Thanks. This is… inconvenient. I see nothing about an option to force quoting of strings. Is there no such option? If not, I suggest that it would be a useful addition.

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