Conrad Lender <crlender@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm using PostgreSQL 8.3 with PHP's "pgsql" module (libpq 8.3.7). When > the server's standard_conforming_strings setting is off (this is > currently still the default, I believe), I use something like this to > escape strings: > if ($escWildcards) { > $str = strtr($str, array("%" => '\%', "_" => '\_')); > } > return "E'" . pg_escape_string($str) . "'"; The above cannot possibly work. pg_escape_string is generating what it supposes to be a normal string literal, and then you are sticking an 'E' on the front which changes the escaping rules. It is not the function's fault that this fails. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general