From 9d3b486828fb5289001e199d6ec8ae4df2fced81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:11:22 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add Escaping A Quote In A String as a postgres til

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 postgres/escaping-a-quote-in-a-string.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
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 - [Default Schema](postgres/default-schema.md)
 - [Defining Arrays](postgres/defining-arrays.md)
 - [Edit Existing Functions](postgres/edit-existing-functions.md)
+- [Escaping A Quote In A String](postgres/escaping-a-quote-in-a-string.md)
 - [Export Query Results To A CSV](postgres/export-query-results-to-a-csv.md)
 - [Extracting Nested JSON Data](postgres/extracting-nested-json-data.md)
 - [Find The Data Directory](postgres/find-the-data-directory.md)
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+# Escaping A Quote In A String
+
+In PostgreSQL, strings (`varchar` and `text`) literals are declared with
+single quotes (`'`). That means that any string containing a single quote as
+part of the content of the string will need some escaping. The way to escape
+a single quote is with another single quote.
+
+```sql
+> select 'what''s up!';
+  ?column?
+------------
+ what's up!
+```
+
+[source](http://jonathansacramento.com/posts/20160122-improve-postgresql-workflow-vim-dbext.html)