You don't use quote when using placeholders, but you will have to escape the special characters, as mentioned previously.
The note in DBD:Pg perldoc that says this: NOTE: The undocumented (and invalid) support for the "SQL_BINARY" data type is officially deprecated. Use "PG_BYTEA" with "bind_param()" instead: Is talking abojut SQL_BINARY, not PG_BYTEA being deprecated as a type name. You use quote when building statements inline, like: my $modelq=$dbh->quote($model); $stmt=qq(select id, model from tbl1 where model = $modelq) Susan Cassidy Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/25/2007 04:15 AM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc General PostgreSQL List <pgsql-general@postgresql.org> Subject Re: [GENERAL] bytea & perl I think the quote() part for bytes is deprecated already? my $string = "(" . join($glue, map{$dbh->quote($_,PG_BYTEA)} @$tokens) . ")"; returns Unknown type 17, defaulting to VARCHAR as a warning... On May 24, 2007, at 1:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, First, I would advise never using " insert into xx values (y,x)" without explicitly naming the columns; same for select statements - never use select * (a table change can mess things up). By the way, I just noticed in the release notes for the very latest couple of versions of DBD:Pg that some placeholder changes were made. You might want to check the release notes and your version of DBD:Pg about your placeholder issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simply protected storage solutions ensure that your information is automatically safe, readily available and always there, visit us at http://www.overlandstorage.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------