Re: Pg.pm oddity with apostrophes

Try '' instead of a single '.

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On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Charles Curley wrote:

> I am using pg.pm with perl to interface between a web server,
> Apache, and postgres. Pg.pm is as follows:
>
> #-------------------------------------------------------
> #
> # $Id: Pg.pm,v 1.8 1998/09/27 19:12:22 mergl Exp $
> #
> # Copyright (c) 1997, 1998  Edmund Mergl
> #
> #-------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> [PostgreSQL 6.5.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc pgcc-2.91.66]
>
>
> The oddity I have hit is that if I try to inset a name with an apostrophe
> in it (e.g. O'Neil), pgsql belly-aches and returns an error of 7. The
> record is not inserted. If I remove the apostrophe, the otherwise identical
> record goes in just fine. I am escaping the apostrophe correctly, as far
> as I know. The insert query is as follows:
>
> Insert into contacts VALUES ( 'Mr.', 'Patrick', 'O\'Neil', blah, blah... 'http://URL' ); "
>
> I can insert the name from psql with no problems, which makes me think it
> is a Pg.pm problem.
>
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