Re: Escaping in C-language functions

Andreas Scherbaum wrote:
> Joe Conway wrote:
>
>>Andreas Scherbaum wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>i have a C-language function and need to escape some strings returned
>>>from SPI_getvalue to insert into another query string.
>>>Is there a proper way to do the escaping or should i use
>>>my own functions for that?
>>>Or i'm totally wrong and there's a better way to get the values
>>>from a row and insert it into another table?
>>
>
>>If you are using 7.2, see section 1.3.2. (Escaping strings for inclusion
>>in SQL queries) at:
>>http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.2/postgres/libpq-exec.html
>>
>>If you are using < 7.2, you'll have to create your own function. See
>>fe-exec.c in current sources for the 7.2 function.
>
>
> I'm inside a C-language function (on the server side), not inside a
> application written in C.
>

Oops, sorry. I guess I should have inferred that from SPI_getvalue. I
don't know of anything in the backend to help you, but I suppose you
could cut-and-paste from fe-exec.c

Joe