On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:19:14AM -0700, Andrew Edson wrote:
> Is there some program or procedure for stripping apostrophes (') from
> data in the db?  Most of our data has been shuffled over to Postgres
> from an older system, and I'm occasionally running into data entered
> in the old system that has apostrophes in it.  (Most recent example:
> A name field with the word "Today's" in it.) Given that most of my
> interactions with the database are through perl scripts and php
> pages, I can't always tell ahead of time what field I need is going
> to contain data that's deadly to my statements.
>    
>   Alternately, is there some way of inserting or selecting data from
>   the db which doesn't require the use of apostrophes for non-numeric
>   fields?

Umm, why are apostrophes causing a problem? Normally you just escape
them or, if you don't want to worry about them at all, use queries with
placeholders. 

Have a nice day,
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