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Re: BUG #2125: SELECT problem with strings containing \
- From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
- To: "Tony" <tonya(at)ananzi(dot)co(dot)za>
- Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
- Subject: Re: BUG #2125: SELECT problem with strings containing \
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:29:55 -0500
- Message-id: <23146.1135697395@sss.pgh.pa.us> <text/plain>
"Tony" <tonya(at)ananzi(dot)co(dot)za> writes: > When running a query such as: > select folder from public.folders > where lower(folder) like '%c:\\1%' > no rows are returned This is not a bug --- you've forgotten that backslash is an escape character in LIKE patterns. You can either double it again: like '%c:\\\\1%' or select a different escape character, or maybe better not have any escape character at all: like '%c:\\1%' escape '' See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-LIKE regards, tom lane
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