I'm afraid I'm confused about something very simple... but anyway I need to run a query on a varchar field containing a backslash. My first attempt looked like this: SELECT smth. FROM tbl WHERE situation LIKE '%\\%'; This did not returned any rows.
I looked up for a reference, confirmed that "... double-backslash is required to represent a literal backslash." http://www.postgresql.org/docs/aw_pgsql_book/node139.html#copy_backslash_han dling But when I doubled the number of backslashes: SELECT smth. FROM tbl WHERE situation LIKE '%\\\\%'; - it actually worked fine. Same thing happens with using regex: situation ~ '\\'; Could someone shed some light on this, please. Mike. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
