[mapserver-users] substitution in a PostGIS layer .. ?

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Julien Cigar wrote:

> This may be a stupid question but: is there a reason why
> PQescapeStringConn() is not used to do the substitution?

Perhaps because Mapserver does not support just PostgreSQL but also Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Informix, CouchDB  etc.  Therefore it is good to have some general purpose validation system. Of cause more sophisticated systems for each datastore would not harm.

-Jukka Rahkonen-

> Thanks,
> Julien