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Hello,

How can I quote a string *exactly* as it is? I tried using 
quote_literal() but it doesn't return what I need in some cases.

E.g.

If my 
string is: ss\\\ss

And I do:

select quote_literal('ss\\\ss');

I get:


E'ss\\ss'  <-- My string now has E'' added and one backslash has been removed!


What I want to do is to pass a string to a custom made function. Since the 
string can contain various metacharcters I need some way to pass this string 
exactly as it is.

(For those who might be interested, the strings I'm working 
with are FASTQ quality scores)

I'm using Postgresql 8.3 on Windows XP

Thanks 
a lot!


Dario

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