is escape_str required with Active Record Class?

[eluser]cb951303[/eluser]
As the title says, is it required?

From documentation, I got the impression that I need it but when I try it in practice, without string escaping, it works fine with chars like ' / . "

So, which one is it?

Thank you...

[eluser]Yorick Peterse[/eluser]
When using the Active record pattern manually escaping the strings is not required.