From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Her Goo <gu_he@msn.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: sql: "LIKE" problem
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:32:12 -0500
Message-ID: <6086.1110785532@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY11-DAV4899E308FCFAA7E626003F85560@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY11-DAV4899E308FCFAA7E626003F85560@phx.gbl>
"Her Goo" <gu_he@msn.com> 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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, gu_he@msn.com
Subject: Re: sql: "LIKE" problem
In-Reply-To: <6086.1110785532@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox