It sounds like the current contract is something like: put stuff in the database that may or may not be ready to go in the database. Since there is no way to tell if something is ready or not, the contract cannot be fulfilled.

I could just as easily interpret the OP's contract as being "put stuff in a DB, quoting the things that on face value arent already quoted and ignoring things that on face value are quoted. Ensuring that something that looks quoted actually is the callers problem."

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_{<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...}