Re: Who do I make _ not a wildcard? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Who do I make _ not a wildcard?
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0107281214450.89249-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to Who do I make _ not a wildcard?  (Roy Souther <roy@silicontao.com>)
Responses Re: Who do I make _ not a wildcard?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Roy Souther wrote:

> In PG the _ is a wildcard that means any singal char. I need to do a search 
> for the actual _ char and not get back thousands of wrong matches. Is there 
> and escape char that I could use? This needs to work with PG 7.0.3 & 7.1.2.

\\_ should work for a literal escape.
At least on current sources you can do something like:like 'blah!_%' escape '!'
where ! becomes the escape character for the string.




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