Re: quoting bug?

On Feb 10, 2008 3:50 AM, Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> NOTICE:  (1,two,"Sat 09 Feb 16:47:44.514503 2008")
> INSERT 0 0
>

I think what you're seeing is the syntax for row literals.

You can get an idea of how it looks without having to write trigger
functions, e.g.:

> select row(1, 'second value', current_timestamp);
                row
-----------------------------------
 (1,"second value","2008-02-10 04:00:54.458647+11")
(1 row)

Note that anything which includes spaces, commas or brackets is double-quoted.

You can see it working the other way around by constructing a record
using the literal syntax.

=> create type foo as (a text, b int);
CREATE TYPE
=> select '("one", 2)'::foo;
   foo
---------
 (one,2)
(1 row)

Cheers,
BJ