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From: Craig Ringer <[email protected]>
To: Andy Anderson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Quoting "
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:28:17 +0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Andy Anderson wrote:
> 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. I assume this is, in fact, 
> standard behavior for Postgres? (Perhaps a comprehensive table might be 
> a good idea at this point in the manual.)

craig=# SELECT E'\z\v\k\-';
  ?column?
----------
  zvk-
(1 row)

 From 4.1.2.1:

... "Any other character following a backslash is taken literally."

I didn't see any escape sequences being interpreted other than those 
that're already documented in the section of 4.1.2.1 that describes E'' 
strings.

--
Craig Ringer



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