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From Bruno Wolff III
Subject \ escapes in check constraint strings?
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Msg-id 20040716214925.GA8688@wolff.to
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I see the following behaivor on 7.4.3 and 7.4 stable from about a week ago:
bruno=> create table test ();
CREATE TABLE
bruno=> alter table test add constraint test2 check('\\' = '');
ALTER TABLE
bruno=> \d test
    Table "public.test"
 Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+------+-----------
Check constraints:
    "test2" CHECK ('\\'::text = ''::text)

bruno=> select '\\';
 ?column?
----------
 \
(1 row)

I didn't see \\ left as \\ in at least some 7.3 versions.

I think this is a bug, but maybe there are different escape rules for
strings in check constraints.

In the real case that this derives from I was getting a different number
of backslashes than I expected in a regular expression.

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