blackwater dev wrote:
I have data that I'm running through pg_escape_sting in php and then adding
to stdin for a copy command. The problem is "O'reilly" is being changed to
"O''Reilly" in the string and then in the db. I saw with the copy command I
can specify the escape but it isn't working for me. Should this command fix
this double 'single' quote issue when I put it in the db? And what is the
proper syntax?
COPY mytable FROM stdin with escape
COPY mytable (...) FROM STDIN WITH CSV ESCAPE "'";
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-copy.html
But CSV comes with a lot of baggage. You'd be far better off doing
tab-delimited, unquoted fields (if you have no tabs in your data).
COPY mytable (...) FROM STDIN;
...
\.
I can't remember precisely all of what pg_escape_string() does, but if
you need it for something else you could always do this afterward ;-)
implode("\t", str_replace("''", "'", $row))
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