Thea wrote:
> My problem is that PG behaves differently than other supported DBMSes
> (MSSQL and MySQL) - when I'm passing a query containing LIKE phrase to
> it, a double amount of '/' literals is needed to obtain expected
> result. I do realize that this is caused by a parser 'collapsing'
> double '/' to a single one.
> I might not express this clearly, but - as I understand it - in
> general result is that to find '/' literal in DB, '////' phrase is
> needed ('////' is turned to '//' by a parser, and that is valid
> expression for '/' literal in SQL itself).
You must be meaning \, the backslash character, not /. The setting
you're looking for is "standard_conforming_strings = on".
BTW: This question would've been more suited for the pgsql-general list,
pgsql-hackers is for discussing development of Postgres.
-- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
