Andrew Dunstan wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 23:48 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I have researched your report, and you are right, there are two ecpg > > bugs here. First, dollar quoting uses single-quotes internally to do > > the quoting, but it does not double any single-quotes in the > > dollar-quoted string. > > > > As a matter of curiosity, why does ecpg handle dollar quoting like that? > psql, for example, happily just passes a dollar quoted string through to > the backend, without any need to convert it to a conventionally quoted > string.
ecpg actually parses the statements so it can do things like make variable substitutions. The $$ and '' strings are actually passed to preproc.y as SCONST. parser/scan.l does the same thing, though it doesn't need to single-quote it and pass it up to eventually be output in C. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
