P.S.
This may also help:
http://www.dispersiondesign.com/articles/perl/perl_escape_characters
Short answer:
Use single-quoted strings whenever possible - they have the fewest characters
to escape - only backslash and single quote - and you can escape both by
preceding with a backslash.
Use
On Friday 08 February 2019 22:37:17 Mike Martin wrote:
> Has anyone done any work on converting SQL queries between RDBMS and perl?
>
> My particular interest is DBD::Pg but anything would be of use
>
> It would be very useful when I am testing complex SQL, it's very easy to
> miss a \ or quote
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
Mike,
If you have a complete example of what you are starting with and what you want
to end up with your question would be clearer.
If I understand you correctly:
You start with raw SQL such as you might enter into a Postgres command line
tool (for example psql).
What you want is the equivalent
