Re: Quoting "

Andy Anderson wrote:
> In a test I just did, the sequence \" (backslash double-quote) is 
> interpreted as just a " inside of the E'...' string constant expression.

> This is great, since PHP's addslashes() sticks them in along with the 
> other stuff I really need to quote like ' and \. But I see that \" isn't

> do***ented in the manual in section 4.1.2.1. I assume this is, in fact, 
> standard behavior for Postgres? (Perhaps a comprehensive table might be 
> a good idea at this point in the manual.)

craig=# SELECT E'\z\v\k\-';
  ?column?
----------
  zvk-
(1 row)

 From 4.1.2.1:

.... "Any other character following a backslash is taken literally."

I didn't see any escape sequences being interpreted other than those 
that're already do***ented in the section of 4.1.2.1 that describes E'' 
strings.

--
Craig Ringer

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