I also found this. Of particular interest is the section on double dollar sign 
quoting: 

4.1.2.4. Dollar-Quoted String Constants

While the standard syntax for specifying string constants is usually 
convenient, it can be difficult to understand when the desired string contains 
many single quotes or backslashes, since each of those must be doubled. To 
allow more readable queries in such situations, PostgreSQL provides another 
way, called "dollar quoting", to write string constants.      A dollar-quoted 
string constant consists of a dollar sign ($), an optional "tag" of zero or 
more characters, another dollar sign, an arbitrary sequence of characters that 
makes up the string content, a dollar sign, the same tag that began this dollar 
quote, and a dollar sign. For example, here are two different ways to specify 
the string "Dianne's horse" using dollar quoting:

$$Dianne's horse$$
$SomeTag$Dianne's horse$SomeTag$

Here's the link: 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html

Bob


On Dec 13, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> I'm a dbase - sql newbie when it comes to actually writing a web front end 
> for capturing and inserting data into a database.  I can do code to read and 
> use data, no problem, but this is my very first project where I actually all 
> on my own without Andre's help, write a front end to accept input.


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