Re: [GENERAL] General coding question

2011-12-20 Thread David Johnston
-Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of jkells Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 3:42 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] General coding question On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:32:32 -0500, David

Re: [GENERAL] General coding question

2011-12-20 Thread jkells
bject: [GENERAL] General coding question > > General coding question. Can I insert a text string into a character > varying column that contains a \ as is, meaning no escaping of the > character or is this a bad practice? > > I.e:

Re: [GENERAL] General coding question

2011-12-20 Thread Bill Moran
In response to jkells : > General coding question. Can I insert a text string into a character > varying column that contains a \ as is, meaning no escaping of the > character or is this a bad practice? > > I.e: Column data > ==

Re: [GENERAL] General coding question

2011-12-20 Thread David Johnston
-Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of jkells Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:33 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] General coding question General coding question. Can I insert a text

[GENERAL] General coding question

2011-12-20 Thread jkells
General coding question. Can I insert a text string into a character varying column that contains a \ as is, meaning no escaping of the character or is this a bad practice? I.e: Column data == description