OK, I was wrong. '' can be sufficient. The DB just has to treat everything between single quotes as data except for '' which is treated as a ' in the data.
However raw control characters can still cause problems in the various stages from the source to the DB. Cheerio, Link. Lincoln Yeoh wrote: Quoting is to help separate data from commands. Though '' is sufficient for quoting ' it seems to me not sufficient for control characters. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster