Re: Quoting "

[Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>]

Andy Anderson wrote:
> In a test I just did, the sequence \" (backslash double-quote) is 
> interpreted as just a " inside of the E'...' string constant expression. 
> This is great, since PHP's addslashes() sticks them in along with the 
> other stuff I really need to quote like ' and \. But I see that \" isn't 
> documented in the manual in section 4.1.2.1. I assume this is, in fact, 
> standard behavior for Postgres? (Perhaps a comprehensive table might be 
> a good idea at this point in the manual.)

craig=# SELECT E'\z\v\k\-';
 ?column?
----------
 zvk-
(1 row)

From 4.1.2.1:

... "Any other character following a backslash is taken literally."

I didn't see any escape sequences being interpreted other than those 
that're already documented in the section of 4.1.2.1 that describes E'' 
strings.

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Craig Ringer