"aboster" <aboster@at-sd.com> writes:
> Since MS-SQL & Oracle (both via ODBC) work fine with this app, I would
> suspect the issue is that Postgres is interpreting backslashes as escape
> characters in situations that the supported databases do not.
Postgres definitely considers backslashes to be escape characters in
string literals.
> Has anyone run across something like this, and if so, can anything be done
> given that we don't have the source code of the application in question?
Without the app source code you may be kinda stuck :-(. It's possible
that you could hack something at the ODBC level, though. Try asking on
the pgsql-odbc list.
regards, tom lane
