On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Michael Lush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION quote_bug(text) RETURNS text AS
> > $$
> > $data = $_[0];
>
> > $sql = "SELECT *
> > FROM test
> > WHERE foo = '$data'";
>
> > $rv_unique = spi_exec_query($sql);
>
> It's hardly a bug that you get a syntax error when $data contains
> a single quote. It's up to you to construct a well-formed query
> string to give to spi_exec_query, and this code is not doing that.
>
> regards, tom lane
As I understand it the input strings are correctly escaped
INSERT INTO test VALUES ('No problem here');
INSERT INTO test VALUES ('It''s a problem here');
INSERT INTO test VALUES ('It\'s also a problem here');
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