Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0R9ieq35355 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 04:44:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f0R9iQ728482; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:44:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:44:25 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Bogdan Paduraru Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Symbol problem Message-ID: <20010127014425.L26076@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010127083349.2592.qmail@web10011.mail.yahoo.com> <3A71E997.1030201@petar.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A71E997.1030201@petar.ro>; from bpaduraru@petar.ro on Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:18:15PM +0200 X-Archive-Number: 200101/171 X-Sequence-Number: 548 * Bogdan Paduraru [010127 01:27] wrote: > Hello , > I made a tool with Java servlets and Postgresql. This tool inputs html text > into a db. My problem is that everytime I input text that contains ' > (apostrophe) > I get an SQL exception. > This Postgresql can't see by itself what is the difference ? > I don't want to check every character, this is stupid. I'd rather change > the RDBMS. Most every interface into postgresql has a 'quoting' mechanism that will escape these characters for you. Check the docs. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."