2010/1/16 Mathieu De Zutter <math...@dezutter.org>:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Mathieu De Zutter
>> <math...@dezutter.org> wrote:
>>> shs-dev=# explain select * from parent where (c,n) = '("b",0)';
>>> ERROR:  input of anonymous composite types is not implemented
>>
>> Shouldn't that be 'b' not "b" ?
>
> It is special syntax to avoid escapes:
>
> shs-dev=# select '("b",0)'::y;
>   y
> -------
>  (b,0)
>

To avoid escapes use E'string'.

In that case the ' will be include into the string, so it will be not more
1 char lenght.

Or something like this:
select ('(' || quote_literal('b') || ',0)')::y

> shs-dev=# select ('("b,",0)'::y).c;
> ERROR:  value too long for type character(1)
> LINE 1: select ('("b,",0)'::y).c;
>
> --


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