On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:29:44PM +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote: > i have a fiels - varchar(100) > > to this fiels i am trying to insert > > "abc\def\xyz' > > but it is not inserting the whole thing ... See "String Constants" in the documentation and take particular note of what it says regarding backslashes: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-CONSTANTS -- Michael Fuhr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org