Hello all,

I am using

modparam("unixodbc", "use_escape_common", 1)

and the result is that if I have a string like he'llo (single quote between the e and l), it becomes he\'llo which is not working in sql. The result should be he''llo (two single quotes between e and l). The reason is that unixodbc uses the core function escape_common(). I think that unixodbc whould have two parameters like

modparam("unixodbc", "use_escape_character", "'")

modparam("unixodbc", "escaped_characters", "'\%^")
use_escape_character would be null by default and if it is not null it would be the character to use for escaping.

escaped_characters would be a list of characters that should be escaped by the character defined above.

I have patched unixodbc to use its own escape function instead, but it would be nice if this was a configurable option that others could use. I could try to implement this if there is an interest. Please let me know your thoughts.

thank you

George

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