On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 17:52 +0000, Brian Gunning wrote: [rearranged quoting]
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- William Shatner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have recently migrated from MS Access to > > PostgreSQL.Previously I had > > a SQL command > > > > ResultSet aGroupResultSet = > > aGroupPathStmt.executeQuery( > > "SELECT \"groupID\",\"fullpath\" FROM > > \"groups\" WHERE > > \"fullpath\" Like '" + > > aPath + "'"); > > > > > > where aPath was equal to 'folder\another folder\%'. > > > I don't think the problem isn't with the backslashes. They are escaped and > seem to be working fine e.g. to insert a backslash in Access I had to use > one escape character ('\\') whereas in PostgreSQL four backslashes ('\\\\') > are required. The line that inserts the % is as follows... > > String aPath = group.getPath() + aOldGroupName + "\\%"; are the backslashes in group.getPath() + aOldGroupName escaped ? does aGroupPathStmt.executeQuery() escape backslashes ? did you print the SQL statement to screen or logfile to make sure what is actually sent to executeQuery() ? does your language support placeholders ? this kind of problems are usually easier to deal with with them. gnari ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])