Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/developers-guide/db-api.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/developers-guide/db-api.xml,v diff -u -r1.8.2.1 -r1.8.2.2 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/developers-guide/db-api.xml 17 Nov 2003 16:38:09 -0000 1.8.2.1 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/developers-guide/db-api.xml 19 Nov 2003 00:10:34 -0000 1.8.2.2 @@ -133,14 +133,18 @@ + If the literal value is a huge string, then we waste a lot of time in the database server doing useless parsing. + + Second, if the literal value contains characters like single quotes, we have to be careful to double-quote them, because not quoting them will lead to surprising errors. +