Re: BUG #2228: escaped single quotes choke spi_exec_query in plperlu

"Michael Lush" <michael@galton.ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION quote_bug(text) RETURNS text AS
> $$
>    $data = $_[0];

>    $sql = "SELECT *
>              FROM test
>             WHERE foo = '$data'";

>    $rv_unique = spi_exec_query($sql);

It's hardly a bug that you get a syntax error when $data contains
a single quote.  It's up to you to construct a well-formed query
string to give to spi_exec_query, and this code is not doing that.

            regards, tom lane