Slashes in the output with PG.

[vaibhav]

I am using PG with my app and when dealing with the varchar fields, I am getting the escaped strings as the output. This patch removes the behavior imedeately. However I think a little more inspection is required for the problem.

[vaibhav]

Removes the escaped quotes and makes them appear normal.

[vakopian]

I haven't used PG, but are you sure the slashes are not added because you have the magic_quotes_gpc setting on?

[olegabr]

I use stripslashes in the same place too for PG.

• magic_quotes_gpc is Off for me

[vaibhav]

I switched off magic_quotes_gpc and it is no longer needed. How about we use that within a if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? I actually figured that out, forgot to update this thread.

[vakopian]

Guys we now have 2 conflicting reports here: according to olegabr setting magic_quotes_gpc off does not change the bad behaviour, while according to vaibhav it fixes it. Could you please double check and provide a definitive conclusion?

vaibhav, I don't think doing the if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) check is a good idea, since it would be doing that at pretty low level function, which is called in tight loops (every string column of every record). It would be too costly.

[vaibhav]

Indeed yes, my site is not too complicated but with some pages with a lot of text based stuff (it has a discussion forum) - the thing became slow! Luckily for me it was working. I think we should ask Olegabr for a little more details. For me, it is:

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