Re: Special characters

From: Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>
To: "Mihai Gheorghiu" <tanethq(at)earthlink(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Special characters
Date: 2001-08-17 15:23:14
Message-ID: m38zgipv6l.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org
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"Mihai Gheorghiu" <tanethq(at)earthlink(dot)net> writes:

> Yet another newbie question...
> The database I'm working on will have fields with special characters: CR/LF,
> ' (like in O'Malley) etc.
> Is there an easy way to deal with this (in INSERT, UPDATE and SELECT), or
> should the front end application (Java) take care of escaping those
> characters?

If you use PreparedStatements, the JDBC driver will quote and escape
the arguments appropriately. If you don't, and build your SQL on the
fly, you'll have to do it yourself.

-Doug
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