Re: Escaping strings for inclusion into SQL queries

For consistency with the rest of the libpq API, the function should be
called PQescapeString, not PGescapeString.

Bruce Momjian writes:

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> Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
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>     http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches
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> I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.
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> > It has come to our attention that many applications which use libpq
> > are vulnerable to code insertion attacks in strings and identifiers
> > passed to these applications.  We have collected some evidence which
> > suggests that this is related to the fact that libpq does not provide
> > a function to escape strings and identifiers properly.  (Both the
> > Oracle and MySQL client libraries include such a function, and the
> > vast majority of applications we examined are not vulnerable to code
> > insertion attacks because they use this function.)
> >
> > We therefore suggest that a string escaping function is included in a
> > future version of PostgreSQL and libpq.  A sample implementation is
> > provided below, along with documentation.
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> > --
> > Florian Weimer                       Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
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