Jack Orenstein <jack.orenstein@xxxxxxx> writes: > I wrote a JDBC test program, with two variants. My Java is pretty weak, but doesn't it think that backslash is special in string literals? If I assume that each pair of \'s in your examples went to the database as one \, then the results are what I'd expect. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general