Re: Escaping single quotes with backslash seems not to work

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 7:07 AM David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 7:02 AM Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> PG 9.6 and PG 14
>>
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-CONSTANTS
>>
>> [quote]
>> Any other character following a backslash is taken literally. Thus, to
>> include a backslash character, write two backslashes (\\). Also, a
>> single quote can be included in an escape string by writing \', in
>> addition to the normal way of ''.
>> [/quote]
>>
>>
> The link you provided goes to the wrong subsection.
>

Ah...you just linked to the section on constants where all the various
incarnations are subsections.

It would be a nice addition to include some examples in the section
pertaining to escape syntax. Make it more clear how it differs from just a
non-escaping literal. Maybe put something like \n into the basic literal
section showing that it outputs the literal two characters instead of a
newline.

David J.