Re: SELECT in VCHAR column for strings with TAB - Mailing list pgsql-general

Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> writes:
> I want to search in a VCHAR column for a string with two TAB at the end.
> I tried some things w/o any luck, like:

> select * from acq_vardata where name=concat('Test202112', 9, 9);
> select * from acq_vardata where name=concat('Test202112', '\t\t');

By default, backslash is not magic in SQL literals.  The right way
to spell that is something like

select * from acq_vardata where name = E'Test202112\t\t';

See the discussion of "escape strings" in

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-CONSTANTS

            regards, tom lane