Re: quote_boolean() and friends missing

Markus Bertheau ☭ <twanger@bluetwanger.de> writes:
> I'm writing an application with a lot of PL/pgSQL and am constructing
> SQL queries on the fly. The quote_literal() and quote_ident() functions
> proved very much needed. Similarly, I need functions that return the SQL
> representation of all the other datatypes, not just TEXT: quote_boolean
> (), quote_date() and so on. For the sake of completeness I think these
> functions should exist. While the use of to_char() resp. decode() for
> some types is possible, it does feel like a workaround to me. Opinions?
> Do these functions belong in the PostgreSQL core?

What exactly do you think they would do?  There is no analogy to
inserting escape characters for those other datatypes.
        regards, tom lane