Peter Choe wrote:
i am trying to add a record of a name. the name has an apostrophe (O'Neil).

i am doing this through a servlet and wrote the code to use PreparedStatement.

when i do:

...
PrepareStatement pstmt = con.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO directory (name, phone) VALUES (?,?)");
pstmt.setString(1, name);
pstmt.setString(2, phone);
pstmt.executeUpdate();
...


We do this all the time (pg 7.3, java 1.4) without any problems. The only problem I see with this snippet is the lack of a terminating semicolon on your insert statement (after (?,?)).


i get the following error:

java.sql.SQLException: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "NEIL" at character 47

    at org.postgresql.core.QueryExecutor.execute(QueryExecutor.java:94)
    at org.postgresql.Connection.ExecSQL(Connection.java:398)
    at org.postgresql.jdbc2.Statement.execute(Statement.java:130)
    at org.postgresql.jdbc2.Statement.executeQuery(Statement.java:54)

i thought that if i use the setString() method of the prepared statement, it would automatically escape the apostrophe.

it only seems to be doing it on INSERT. with UPDATE it seems to behave as it should (escape the character).

if i enter the record from psql, it works fine.

i am using postgres 7.2 on a freebsd 4.3 platform and jdk1.3.1

Peter Choe



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