On Friday, November 04, 2011 07:38:29 am John Fabiani wrote: > Hi, > I just discovered that I can use $$string$$ to account for the problem of > single quotes in the string (or other strange char's). However, I noticed > that the table field contained E'string'. I actually tried to find info on > this but I did not find anything. > > Could someone explain what it means or better provide a web link for me to > discover the info. > > Thanks in advance, > Johnf
Thank you both for the quick replies and the links. What I still do not understand (I'm a little slow) is the fact that pgadmin3 showed the data as E'string'. So I'm wondering if the data is now different in the sense that I need use the 'E' in the field. For example I have the last name of O'Reilly the field lname now appears to contain E'O'Reilly' So will the normal select statements work; Select * from table where lname = 'O'' Reilly' Select * from table where lname like 'O%' or will I need to know the data contains the "E" and add the 'E' to the sql statements? Thanks Johnf -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
