diff --git a/include/postgres.php b/include/postgres.php
index ffdaf04df..4e55b38b1 100644
--- a/include/postgres.php
+++ b/include/postgres.php
@@ -142,6 +142,33 @@ function ExecSql($p_connection, $p_string) {
   ob_flush();
   return $ret;
 
+}
+/*! 
+ * \brief send a sql string to the database using the function
+ * pg_query_params. Useful for avoiding the problem with the quotes
+ * and to execute several times the same command 
+ * \param $p_connection db connection 
+ * \param $p_string     sql string
+ * \param $p_array array containing the value
+ * \return false if error otherwise true
+ */
+function ExecSqlParam($p_connection, $p_string,$p_array) {
+  echo_debug('postgres.php',__LINE__,"SQL = $p_string");
+  echo_debug('postgres.php',__LINE__,$p_array);
+  // probl. with Ubuntu & UTF8
+  //----
+
+  pg_set_client_encoding($p_connection,'latin1');
+  ob_start();
+  $ret=pg_query_params($p_connection,$p_string,$p_array);
+  if ( ! $ret )   {
+    ob_clean();
+    $r=$string."array ".var_export($p_array,TRUE);
+    throw new Exception (" SQL ERROR $r",1);
+  }
+  ob_flush();
+  return $ret;
+
 }
 
 /*!