How to escape back ticks

Question

MySQL requires tables that shadow reserved words to be back ticked. I have a table Role which is a reserved word, but I have already put my query in back ticks so I can writ

Answer 1

I just used a placeholder (like %s) instead of the backticks and replaced them afterwards:

strings.ReplaceAll(`CREATE TABLE %smydatabase%s.%smytable%s (
    %sid%s binary(16),
    %sname%s varchar(45),
    PRIMARY KEY(%sid%s)
)`, "%s", "`")

Answer 2

Use notepad++ on your plain text and replace (search and) replace

`

with

`+"`"+`

Answer 3

If your query is long, it might be worth putting in a text file and reading it in, that will keep your code more concise and organized, and also avoid the backtick quoting issue entirely.

Answer 4

You cannot escape backticks inside backticks, but you can do:

dbmap := db.InitDb()

var roles []entities.Role
query := `
SELECT *
FROM ` + "`Role`"

_, err := dbmap.Select(&roles, query, nil)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

fmt.Println(roles)

Answer 5

You can use . prefix:

query := `
SELECT *
FROM .Role
`

Answer 6

You can try writing queries like this:

query :=fmt.Sprintf("SELECT * FROM `Role`")

You can compare the outputs:

import "fmt"

func main() {
 query :=fmt.Sprintf("SELECT * FROM `Role`")
 fmt.Println(query)
 fmt.Println( `SELECT * FROM ` + "`Role`") }