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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: Bernd Froehlich <bfroehli@AWI-Bremerhaven.DE>
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: double quotes in postgres string
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 94 08:44:31 -0700
Message-ID: <199409011544.IAA20272@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9409011203.AA03467@edvs1.awi-bremerhaven.de>

bfroehli@AWI-Bremerhaven.DE (Bernd Froehlich) writes:
> How do I put double quotes in a postgres string?
> I tried to precede them with a backslash but that did not work:
> * append test(a="\"")\g
> unknown escape given

the monitor uses backslash as its escape character.  use two:
 * append test(a="\\"hello world\\"")\g
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  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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