Re: Regular expression character escape - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Regular expression character escape
Date
Msg-id 22268.1330104084@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Regular expression character escape  (Ronan Dunklau <rdunklau@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
Ronan Dunklau <rdunklau@gmail.com> writes:
> Unfortunately for my use case, "too much" quoting can lead to errors in
> postgresql.

AFAIR, the only stuff that's unsafe to insert a backslash before
is ASCII letters.  This is documented in the fine print discussing
regular expressions, btw.

            regards, tom lane

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