Tom Lane writes:
> Exercise for the student: if you need to match a literal backslash
> in a LIKE pattern, how many backslashes do you have to write in your
> query?
I like how Python handles this: You prefix the text literal with an `r'
(as in "raw") and the backslashes are not special. Maybe we could offer
that as well.
blah ~ r'.+\..+'
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