On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:12:38AM -0700, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > select name from templates where name like '%\_cont\_%'; > > name > ---------------------------------- > cgidvcontrol > x8idvcontrol > etc.... > > I would expect to NOT see these because the "cont" is not preceded by > and followed by an underscore (because I escaped them with \). You need to escape the escape! backslash is the escape character in literals as well as like patterns, so you need to double it up. I think you want to be doing: name LIKE '%\\_cont\\_%' Sam -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general