On Nov 25, 2005, at 13:40 , surabhi.ahuja wrote:
in which version will the use of "Escape string syntax " be
supported ..
I know they work in 8.1. You can check the release notes:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/release.html
The SQL standard way of escaping single-quotes is ''.
test=# select version();
version
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 8.1.0 on powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0, compiled by GCC
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0 (GCC) 4.0.0 (Apple Computer, Inc.
build 5026)
(1 row)
test=# select 'foo''s bar' as sql_standard
test-# , e'foo\'s bar' as e_escape
test-# , $$foo's bar$$ as dollar_quote;
sql_standard | e_escape | dollar_quote
--------------+-----------+--------------
foo's bar | foo's bar | foo's bar
(1 row)
Michael Glaesemann
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