til/postgres/escaping-string-literals-with-dollar-quoting.md

Escaping String Literals With Dollar Quoting

String literals in PostgreSQL are defined by surrounding the content with the ' character. For string literals that contain the ' character, you may have seen it escaped with a preceding '.

> select 'Isn''t this nice?';
     ?column?
------------------
 Isn't this nice?

This is easy enough to do, but can be error prone and doesn't work well if SQL is being programmatically generated. A great workaround is to escape string literals using what is called dollar quoting.

> select $$Isn't this even nicer?$$;
        ?column?
------------------------
 Isn't this even nicer?

Just wrap both ends in $$ instead of '.

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