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Escaping A Quote In A String

In PostgreSQL, string (varchar and text) literals are declared with single quotes ('). That means that any string containing a single quote will need some escaping. The way to escape a single quote is with another single quote.

> select 'what''s up!';
  ?column?
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 what's up!

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