postgres dblink escape single quote

Question

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• String literals and escape characters in postgresql

Here is my error:

ERROR:  type \"e\" does not exist
         


        

Answer 1

Try this query:

SELECT *
 FROM dblink('host=theHostName port=1234 dbname=theDBName user=theUser password=thePassword',
 'SELECT field_1, 
 CASE WHEN field_2 IS NOT NULL 
 THEN $$inactive$$ ELSE $$active$$ 
 END AS field_status 
 FROM the_table') 
 AS linkresults(field_1 varchar(20),field_2 varchar(8))