Re: dollar-quoting in psql and in general - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Philip Warner
Subject Re: dollar-quoting in psql and in general
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Msg-id 6.1.1.1.0.20040812125946.049cb410@203.8.195.10
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In response to Re: dollar-quoting in psql and in general  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: dollar-quoting in psql and in general  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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At 12:47 PM 12/08/2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>Backslashes are not special inside
>dollar quotes --- nor is anything else, except the matching close tag

If they are not special, then shouldnt:
   select $a$\$a$;

result in
   ?column?      \

rather than an error?



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