Re: Problem escaping, nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal

Warren Bell wrote:
> I am having a problem with escaping characters after upgrading to 8.3. I
> have changed the postgresql.conf file to contain:
>
> standard_conforming_strings = on
>
> I do not get the error:
>
> nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal
>
> anymore but now I am having a problem escaping certain characters like
> the apostrophe \'. I am now getting the following error:
>
> syntax error at or near "S" at character 282
>
> that is referring to an apostrophe in an insert statement.
>
> I am not escaping this character in my code. I am assuming that the
> driver is escaping it. I am using the postgresql-8.3-603.jdbc3.jar as
> the driver.
>
> I see that you can escape by doing E'Joe\'s', but how do I get this to
> work without going through my code and shouldn't this be done by the
> driver.

Could you send a short code sample for your problem?
It would make it easier for me to look.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe