How to insert special characters in psql?

[littlemaster]

I am having a file, that have to be inserted into db in text data type field. I am facing issue when the file having special characters like ( ,),. Kindly check the attached file for example.

Insert query only I have used.

Example:

obj=PGconn.connect(host,port'','',dbname,username,password")
input="Last Cron Entry is = #50 23  * * *  /ProActive/bin/Logparser_NORTEL.pl -f /Zivah/Station/CTIServer/Nortel/logs/api_`date +\%d_\%m_\%Y`.log -a >> /RemoteTShooter/Out/Content/Nortel_Parser_logs_Reports_`/sbin/ifconfig | perl -ne 'if ( m/^\s*inet (?:addr:)?([\d.]+).*?cast/ ) { print qq($1_);}'``date +\%d\%m\%Y`;touch /RemoteTShooter/Out/Status/Nortel_Parser_logs_Reports_`/sbin/ifconfig | perl -ne 'if ( m/^\s*inet (?:addr:)?([\d.]+).*?cast/ ) { print qq($1_);}'``date +\%d\%m\%Y` smartctl -Hc /dev/sda
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smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/";


 obj.exec("insert into hcoutputs (description) values('#{input}')")

[rski]

I think the problem is with ' characters. The simplest solution is to double all ' characters in the string you want to insert to table.
Or you can escape the ' characters (writing \' instead of ') and use E operator like that

E'string you want to put into table'.

If you choose the second solution you will have to escape \ characters too (you will have to write \\%d instead of \%d)