Re: the return value of select statement includes unwanted quote

On Monday 09 April 2007 13:55, L Chou wrote:
> Hi, I am writing perl code and using DBI to connect to the postgreSQL
> database.  I found that if the column type is varchar, then the return
> value of this column will always be double quoted.   Is there a way that I
> could remove the double quote from the return value?  since if I use a
> compound statement and used the return value to query the database, then
> PostgreSQL doen't recognize the double quote.  If I put extra single quote
> around the return value, then the value has extra two double quote around
> it, and it doesn't match any record in the database.
>
> Please advise if there is any way to remove the double quote.

DBI isn't doing this, I don't think.  Did the data contain quotes when you 
loaded them?  Are the quotes present in pgAdmin III or psql?  

Sean