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From: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: LIKE operator and string comparison
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:19:30 -0400
Message-ID: <41520882.6020702@kencast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19606.1095894584@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <415202B6.7060903@kencast.com>
	<19606.1095894584@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Tom Lane wrote:

> Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com> writes:
> 
>>But if I choose to use string comparison, instead of 4 escape characters, I 
>>only need 2.
> 
> 
>>Why is that?
> 
> 
> Backslash is an escape character for LIKE.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 
> 

What about in regular strings? I do need to use backslash to escape the 
other backslash in order to get the '\'. Why isn't that the case in LIKE 
operation?

Thanks

Wei

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