On Apr 2, 8:59 am, l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ("Leif B. Kristensen") wrote: > On Thursday 2. April 2009, linnewbie wrote: > > >Hi All, > > >I'm fairly new to postgres and I'm having this peculiar problem. > > >I'm storing raw html in a text field and I want users who know HTML to > >update the content in a textarea field. > > >The problem is postgres is adding braces to the begining and ending of > >the content. On creation and every time I update. > > I can't reproduce your problem in 8.3.5: > > pgslekt=> create table test (i integer, t text); > CREATE TABLE > pgslekt=> insert into test values (1, '<p>Hei hei</p>'); > INSERT 0 1 > pgslekt=> select * from test; > i | t > ---+---------------- > 1 | <p>Hei hei</p> > (1 row) > > Perhaps it's a middleware problem? > -- > Leif Biberg Kristensen | Registered Linux User #338009 > Me And My Database:http://solumslekt.org/blog/ > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-gene...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription:http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general I am using tcl ( ncgi and tclobdc ) so it is more like the excerpts below: ie I input: <h1>Hello World </h1> <p>xyz <p/> ......... into the text area field, save: set page_content [ ncgi::value textarea_field_name] database connect dbh $datasource $dbuser $dbpassword set sql "INSERT INTO profile (page_content) \ VALUES('$page_content') " dbh $sql ...................... ...................... ...................... view: set sql "SELECT page_content FROM profile \ WHERE page_id = $page" set page_content [lindex [ dbh $sql ] 0] ::ncgi::header "text/html ........................... ........................... ........................... puts "<textarea id='page_content' name='page_content'> $page_content </ textarea>" ......................................................... ........................................................ in browser I see: {<h1>Hello World </h1> <p>xyz <p/> ......... } On a subsequent update I see {{ <h1>Hello World </h1> <p>xyz <p/> ......... }} On another I see {{{ <h1>Hello World </h1> <p>xyz <p/> ......... -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general