Re: Escaping of special characters in ARRAYs is broken

* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [2002-04-21 11:12 -0400]:
> Gerhard Häring <haering_linux@gmx.de> writes:
> > You can see the inconsistency yourself when you try to insert a special
> > character like \005 into a varchar array. IMO This should work with inserting
> > '{"\\005"}', but this just inserts the three letters 005.
>
> This is not a bug; you didn't use enough backslashes.  See the example
> at the bottom of this page:
> http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/arrays.html
Thanks. The bug was elsewhere: in the client library I use. I fixed this
in the meantime. The CVS version of pyPgSQL now supports ARRAYs and even
multidimensional ARRAYs.

Gerhard
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