modify the way PostgreSQL quotes backslashes

this is for SFA and namely from fed4fire, who use
hrn's that have backslashes in them so as to
escape dots in hrns, when they are meant for FQDN-hostnames

diff --git a/PLC/PostgreSQL.py b/PLC/PostgreSQL.py
index dcf0608..bf467dd 100644 (file)
--- a/PLC/PostgreSQL.py
+++ b/PLC/PostgreSQL.py
@@ -68,7 +68,12 @@ class PostgreSQL:
             x = x.decode('utf-8')
 
         if isinstance(x, str):
-            x = x.replace("\\", "\\\\").replace("'", "''")
+        # don't double quote backslahes, this causes failure
+        # with e.g. the SFA code when it tries to spot slices
+        # created from fed4fire, which to my knowledge is the only
+        # place where a backslash is useful
+        #    x = x.replace("\\", "\\\\")
+            x = x.replace("'", "''")
             x = f"'{x}'"
         elif isinstance(x, (int, float)):
             pass