> > 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