P.P.S.
My last answer used single-quote for a column with a space in it in PostgreSQL
- this is wrong, it should have been a double-quote for the name of the column
with a space and a single quote for a quoted string literal in PostgreSQL.
Better example:
(Adapted from answer to question here
https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/118059/quoting-columns-with-spaces-in-postgresql
)
$my_perl_sql_string= 'SELECT' . "\n";
$my_perl_sql_string.= ' tab."This IS My Column EXACTLY" AS col' . "\n";
$my_perl_sql_string.= 'FROM "My TabLE Name Contains Spaces Too!" tab' . "\n";
$my_perl_sql_string.= 'WHERE tab."ANOTHER UGLY COLUMN name" =
\'MyFilterString\' '
I don't know if PostgreSQL requires a trailing semi-colon when used in DBI/DBD
or not.
I know that Oracle SQL requires a trailing semicolon in sqlplus but not in
DBI/DBD.
I don't have a PostgreSQL database to try it out on.
Try it both ways, and the one that works is the one to use.
Brian Fennell
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