I have a table "temp" with two attributes: integer, text[].
I would like to insert a record with the brace inside the array. For example a record like this:
1, {'1{c}1','a'}
where 1 is the integer and '1{c}1' is the first element of the array and 'a' the second element of the array.
I tried a simply insert like this:
INSERT INTO temp VALUES (id, '{'1{c}1','a'}');
but it says that is malformed.
As an addition, it's also possible to use array constructors, I think it's more safe to use, because array elements are just SQL constants and you also could use expressions inside the array constructors:
insert into "temp" values(1, array['1{c}1','a']);
it's clear that this is array of strings, and this too
insert into "temp" values(1, array['1','2']);
According to the PostgreSQL documentation for arrays,
You can put double quotes around any element value, and must do so if it contains commas or curly braces.
A correct syntax would like this:
INSERT INTO "temp" VALUES (1, '{"1{c}1",a}');
You can see a complete, working example on SQL fiddle.
array['1{c}1', 'a'] notation for the array, fewer quoting hassles that way.You don't want those inner single quotes.
INSERT INTO temp VALUES (id, '{1{c}1,a}');
