Hi all,
What's the proper way to store directory path strings in a table, especially ones with backslashes like windows?
I'm currently using a prepared statement with bind value. Do I need to pre-parse all user entries to identify any backslash characters before passing the string to my insert statement?
Searches through the documentation turned up references to escape_string_warning (boolean) and standard_conforming_strings (boolean). I'm not sure I'll have access to server side config.
Thanks in advance!
Scott
eg:
CREATE TABLE foo (
foo_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(32) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
dirpath text DEFAULT NULL);
INSERT INTO foo (name, dirpath) VALUES ('bar', 'c:\windows\path\to\bar');
--> WARNING: nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal