psql thought that backslash is an escape character inside double quotes.

It isn't.

diff --git a/src/bin/psql/mainloop.c b/src/bin/psql/mainloop.c
index 6d9367f761174f1d2271ab58fa65f37f26dd91ac..1f84d507963cbefc841c681c84e6186baeadd953 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bin/psql/mainloop.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/mainloop.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright 2000 by PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/psql/mainloop.c,v 1.50 2002/09/04 20:31:36 momjian Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/psql/mainloop.c,v 1.51 2002/10/12 23:09:34 tgl Exp $
  */
 #include "postgres_fe.h"
 #include "mainloop.h"
@@ -300,9 +300,13 @@ MainLoop(FILE *source)
            /* in quote? */
            if (in_quote)
            {
-               /* end of quote */
-               if (line[i] == in_quote && bslash_count % 2 == 0)
-                   in_quote = '\0';
+               /*
+                * end of quote if matching non-backslashed character.
+                * backslashes don't count for double quotes, though.
+                */
+               if (line[i] == in_quote &&
+                   (bslash_count % 2 == 0 || in_quote == '"'))
+                   in_quote = 0;
            }
 
            /* in extended comment? */
@@ -330,12 +334,10 @@ MainLoop(FILE *source)
                ADVANCE_1;
            }
 
-           /* start of quote */
-           else if (!was_bslash &&
-                    (line[i] == '\'' || line[i] == '"'))
+           /* start of quote? */
+           else if (line[i] == '\'' || line[i] == '"')
                in_quote = line[i];
 
-
            /* single-line comment? truncate line */
            else if (line[i] == '-' && line[i + thislen] == '-')
            {
@@ -446,6 +448,7 @@ MainLoop(FILE *source)
                /* remove the backslash */
                memmove(line + i - prevlen, line + i, len - i + 1);
                len--;
+               i--;
            }
 
            /* backslash command */