It is possible that one had /r/n and the other just /n. I was doing the comparison using psql.
The issue was not using LIKE and %. I resolved the problem by removing chr(13) from both sides. So my working query was had a where clause like this: WHERE REPLACE(message, chr(13), '') = REPLACE('<long string>', chr(13), '') ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org