On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 3:56:14 pm Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
>
> This is really a question for the DBD::Pg folks, I think. Looking at:
> http://search.cpan.org/~turnstep/DBD-Pg-2.16.1/Pg.pm#COPY_support
>
> It doesn't look like there is support for escaping COPY data. But
> incidentally, I recently brought up the same problem with psycopg2 on
> the psycopg list, and it seems there's no existing solution there,
> either.
As far as I know you did not get an answer, which is not the same as there being
no answer:) I think you will find that the escaping is handled for you.
> Going out on a limb, I'm guessing that connectors don't offer
> this support because there is no function in libpq for them to wrap,
> and they don't want to kludge their own.
>
> Anyone else think it might be a good idea for libpq to offer some
> function to escape text to be used by COPY?
>
> Josh
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