Re: Having issues inserting a string with a ' into a varchar column

["David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, April 15, 2022, Sbob <sbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I tried this :  quote_ident ( 'Poker 5 card Hold'Em')

but it still error's out

I also tried :  quote_literal('Poker 5 card Hold\'Em')

but it also errors out:

You have the right idea you need to escape it.  But guessing isn’t a good method to figure out how.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-CONSTANTS

You can’t use quote_* on a literal if you do not express the literal correctly.

David J.