On Monday, May 15, 2017, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Guyren Howe <guy...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> writes:
> > ... get this result:
> > (200,{},<body>Works!</body>)
> > This is the textual representation of the result I get in psql and Ruby.
> Note that the textual final value is not quoted.
> > I imagine I can work out a way to deal with this, but this is not the
> most felicitous way of representing a text value that I can imagine.
> > Note that if I add a single space after “Works!”, I get quotes around
> the string.
>
> As per spec:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/arrays.html#ARRAYS-IO
>
>
Right idea (same output rules), wrong link. The output is a composite, not
an array.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/rowtypes.html#ROWTYPES-IO-SYNTAX
David J.
