Re: Text value within composite function result not quoted

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Text value within composite function result not quoted
Date: 2017-05-16 05:10:45
Message-ID: CAKFQuwZBciF2hTxuC6hwac4Wdg933bE+NDArVEgNA=hoycWtxg@mail.gmail.com
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On Monday, May 15, 2017, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com <javascript:;>> writes:
> > ... 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
>
>

Right idea (same output rules), wrong link. The output is a composite, not
an array.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/rowtypes.html#ROWTYPES-IO-SYNTAX

David J.

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