PG 9.6 and PG 14
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Any other character following a backslash is taken literally. Thus, to include a backslash character, write two backslashes (\\). Also, a single quote can be included in an escape string by writing \', in addition to the normal way of ''.
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But it doesn't seem to work. Obviously there's some misconfiguration or , but I don't see what I did wrong.
TAP=# insert into foo (name, description) values ('XYZ_Name ', '''XYZ ''');
INSERT 0 1
TAP=# insert into foo (name, description) values ('XYZ_Name ', '\'XYZ ');
TAP'#
TAP'# ');
ERROR: syntax error at or near "XYZ"
LINE 1: ...into foo (name, description) values ('XYZ_Name ', '\'XYZ ');
TAP=# show standard_conforming_strings;
standard_conforming_strings
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on
(1 row)
TAP=#
TAP=# show backslash_quote;
backslash_quote
-----------------
safe_encoding
(1 row)