Insert any type of text in a column How can I insert any type of text into a column of type text?

At the moment I am using this:

$$description$$


But a lot of my descriptions contain $ and other signs, so the insert will fail. Do I need to convert the text to something?
You are not limited to just $$ you can use anything enclosed in $, e.g. $_alex_delimiter_$

insert into foo 
   (some_column)
values
  ($_alex_delimiter_$this is a long string that contains a single $ and two $$ and quotes '''''$_alex_delimiter_$);


Just pick something that won't be part of the text.