Is there a way to search for rows with the character \? I tried variants of like and ~. create table mytable (f1 text); insert into mytable values ('Test row 1'); insert into mytable values (E'Test row 2 \\'); select * from mytable where f1 like E'%\\%'; <-- returned nothing select * from mytable where f1 ~ '\'; <-- waiting for single quote select * from mytable where f1 ~ E'\\'; <-- Error And a few more variants.. with no valid reults. Any suggestions?