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Tom Lane c16a1bbcf4 Add documentation and tests for quote marks in ECPG literal queries. ... ECPG's PREPARE ... FROM and EXECUTE IMMEDIATE can optionally take the target query as a simple literal, rather than the more usual string-variable reference. This was previously documented as being a C string literal, but that's a lie in one critical respect: you can't write a data double quote as \" in such literals. That's because the lexer is in SQL mode at this point, so it'll parse double-quoted strings as SQL identifiers, within which backslash is not special, so \" ends the literal. I looked into making this work as documented, but getting the lexer to switch behaviors at just the right point is somewhere between very difficult and impossible. It's not really worth the trouble, because these cases are next to useless: if you have a fixed SQL statement to execute or prepare, you might as well write it as a direct EXEC SQL, saving the messiness of converting it into a string literal and gaining the opportunity for compile-time SQL syntax checking. Instead, let's just document (and test) the workaround of writing a double quote as an octal escape (\042) in such cases. There's no code behavioral change here, so in principle this could be back-patched, but it's such a niche case I doubt it's worth the trouble. Per report from 1250kv. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/673825.1603223178@sss.pgh.pa.us		5 years ago
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src	Add documentation and tests for quote marks in ECPG literal queries.	5 years ago
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