Hello list, I upgraded to postgres-8.1.4 and saw all of the backslash escape changes and understand why, but I can't figure out how to put a literal \' in the database. If \ is no longer escaping shouldn't I be able to use \” and have postgres ignore the \ and use standard sql syntax to escape the single '? It seems that no matter what I try postgres returns an error message because it thinks I'm trying to escape the '. The data is coming from PHP, and yes, I know that embedded SQL is bad, but I want to disable \ escaping now since I don't use it and it will be a little while before I can convert to PDO. Is there any way to disable \ escaping and pass a literal \' without postgres kicking back an error on the query? schu