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To: Andy Anderson <aanderson@amherst.edu>
cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Quoting " 
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Comments: In-reply-to Andy Anderson <aanderson@amherst.edu>
	message dated "Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:10:38 -0400"
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:28:28 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Andy Anderson <aanderson@amherst.edu> writes:
> In a test I just did, the sequence \" (backslash double-quote) is  
> interpreted as just a " inside of the E'...' string constant  
> expression. This is great, since PHP's addslashes() sticks them in  
> along with the other stuff I really need to quote like ' and \. But I  
> see that \" isn't documented in the manual in section 4.1.2.1.

Huh?  It says

    Any other character following a backslash is taken literally.

			regards, tom lane