Hello
try
postgres=# SELECT ARRAY['text "for you" some'];
array
---------------------------
{"text \"for you\" some"}
(1 row)
regards
Pavel Stehule
2009/3/13 Bill Moran <wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Between google searches and my own experiments, I can't find any way to
> actually make this work.
>
> I have a TEXT[] column, and one of the values I want to insert is
> 'text "for" you'.
>
> Is there no way to do this using the {} syntax? Chronicled below are
> several of my attempts (various noise has been snipped):
>
> bill=# create table testarray (a TEXT[], id BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY);
>
> bill=# insert into testarray (a) values (E'{"text \"for you\"","moretext"}');
> ERROR: malformed array literal: "{"text "for you"","moretext"}"
>
> bill=# insert into testarray (a) values (E'{"text \\"for you\\"","moretext"}');
> INSERT 0 1
> bill=# select * from testarray;
> a | id
> -------------------------------+----
> {"text \"for you\"",moretext} | 3
>
> bill=# insert into testarray (a) values (E'{"text \"for you\"","moretext"}');
> ERROR: malformed array literal: "{"text "for you"","moretext"}"
>
> bill=# insert into testarray (a) values (E'{"text ""for you","moretext"}');
> ERROR: malformed array literal: "{"text ""for you","moretext"}"
> bill=# insert into testarray (a) values (E'{"text "for" you","moretext"}');
> ERROR: malformed array literal: "{"text "for" you","moretext"}"
>
> bill=# insert into testarray (a) values (E'{"text \"for\" you","moretext"}');
> ERROR: malformed array literal: "{"text "for" you","moretext"}"
>
> bill=# insert into testarray (a) values (E'{"text \042for\042 you","moretext"}');
> ERROR: malformed array literal: "{"text "for" you","moretext"}"
>
> bill=# insert into testarray (a) values (E'{"text \\042for\\042 you","moretext"}');
> INSERT 0 1
> bill=# select * from testarray;
> a | id
> ---------------------------------+----
> {"text 042for042 you",moretext} | 4
>
>
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