Bruce Momjian <[hidden email]> writes: > Walter wrote: >> I have a problem using the copy command on a CSV file. Doubling every single quote and backslash makes the string constant more difficult to read and maintain. >> >> All of the values within the CSV are surrounded with quotation marks. I spend a large proportion of my time teaching classes in a variety of open-source technologies — specifically, Ruby, Python, PostgreSQL, and Git. Dollar-quoting is a PostgreSQL-specific substitute for single quotes to avoid quoting issues inside the function body. replacing single quotes. As you probably understand, apostrophe (otherwise known as semi-quotes or single quotes) and quote symbols are used in Postgres and many programming languages to delineate text strings and string-based commands. The separator is a string that separates all arguments in the result string.. (When continuing an escape string constant across lines, write E only before the first opening quote.) You could write your function definition with single-quotes just as well. The table that contains the foreign key is called the referencing table or child table. PostgreSQL version 8.0 introduced the dollar quoting feature to make string constants more readable. at 2001-04-03 01:25:45 from Lee Harr Won't help --- that will match a field that is empty and *doesn't* have quotes. Responses Re: Why are quotes required around table / column names in SQL statements? The CONCAT_WS function returns a combined string that is the combination of str_1, str_2, etc., separated by the separator.. PostgreSQL CONCAT_WS function example. A foreign key is a column or a group of columns in a table that reference the primary key of another table.. Summary: in this tutorial, you will learn about PostgreSQL foreign key and how to add foreign keys to tables using foreign key constraints.. Introduction to PostgreSQL Foreign Key Constraint. 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PostgreSQL QUOTE_IDENT() function with Example : The PostgreSQL quote_ident function is used to make a given string with suitably double quoted, so as it can be used like an identifier in an sql statement string if required. One of the questions that invariably arises in these classes has to do with the case sensitivity of the technology in question. You could write your function definition with single-quotes just as well. What is happening is that Postgres is seeing the sql string as an identifier and is looking for a column of that name. PostgreSQL also allows single quotes to be escaped with a backslash (\), so for example the same string could be written 'Dianne\'s horse'. 11 Don’t use double quotes in PostgreSQL. > I suspect the solution is probably simple; yet, I can't get i I think you need two single quotes around the embedded sql string. Read and maintain that name difficult to read and maintain constants more.. 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