Function quoteString

server/types/utils.go:339–352

quoteString determines if |s| needs to be quoted, by looking for special characters like ' ' or ',', and if so, quotes the string and returns it. If quoting is not needed, then |s| is returned as is.

(s string)

// quoteString determines if |s| needs to be quoted, by looking for special characters like ' ' or ',',
// and if so, quotes the string and returns it. If quoting is not needed, then |s| is returned as is.
func quoteString(s string) string {
	shouldQuote := false
	for _, r := range s {
		switch r {
		case ' ', ',', '{', '}', '\\', '"':
			shouldQuote = true
		}
	}
	if shouldQuote || strings.EqualFold(s, "NULL") || len(s) == 0 {
		return fmt.Sprintf(`"%s"`, strings.ReplaceAll(s, `"`, `\"`))
	} else {
		return s
	}
}

// toInternal returns an Internal ID for the given type. This is only used for the built-in types, since they all share
// the same schema (pg_catalog).