> > I'm using text[] arrays. Some of my array elements have '"'

> > characters in them.  Dumping and reloading using pg_dumpall >
> doesn't work with this and dumping the entire array and > > then
trying to parse it is hopeless.

Doug Gibson

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c
index 50c42c112077e2f94dae42a1825e2b17e2d9a75d..6844c584124cf99ee8be72de8dff2bdd8121049d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *       $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c,v 1.27 1998/02/26 04:36:50 momjian Exp $
+ *       $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c,v 1.28 1998/03/20 03:44:19 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ array_out(ArrayType *v, Oid element_type)
        FmgrInfo        outputproc;
        char            typalign;
 
-       char       *p,
+       char       *p, *tmp, 
                           *retval,
                          **values,
                                delim[2];
@@ -633,6 +633,7 @@ array_out(ArrayType *v, Oid element_type)
                                i,
                                j,
                                k,
+                               l,
                                indx[MAXDIM];
        bool            dummy_bool;
        int                     ndim,
@@ -713,7 +714,11 @@ array_out(ArrayType *v, Oid element_type)
                         */
                        overall_length += 2;
                }
-               overall_length += (strlen(values[i]) + 1);
+               for (tmp=values[i];*tmp;tmp++) {
+                       overall_length += 1;
+                       if (*tmp=='"') overall_length += 1;
+               }
+               overall_length += 1;
        }
 
        /*
@@ -740,7 +745,12 @@ array_out(ArrayType *v, Oid element_type)
                if (!typbyval)
                {
                        strcat(p, "\"");
-                       strcat(p, values[k]);
+                       l=strlen(p);
+                       for (tmp=values[k];*tmp;tmp++) {
+                               if (*tmp=='"') p[l++]='\\';
+                               p[l++]=*tmp;
+                               }
+                       p[l]='\0';
                        strcat(p, "\"");
                }
                else