"Her Goo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to go a step further, and  restrict the results to those 
> that begin with string "abc\d".

You need four backslashes for that, because \ is special to both
the string literal parser and the LIKE operator.  So '\\\\'
reduces to a string constant containing \\, and then the LIKE
operator sees that as a quoted backslash.

                        regards, tom lane

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