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From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [SQL] How match percent sign in SELECT using LIKE?
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Msg-id 199903171630.LAA10656@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [SQL] How match percent sign in SELECT using LIKE?  (Herouth Maoz <herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il>)
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> Thus, if someone has a script written to the SQL92 standard, he is allowed
> to use a construct like
>
> ...WHERE pathname LIKE 'C:\WINDOWS\%'
>
> Without encountering oddities.

Yes, but all our strings us '\' as escape.  If we turn it off just for
the LIKE string, people will be very confused.

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