Neanderthelle Jones wrote: > About the string "Smith \& Jones". > > According to the documentation, > > INSERT INTO thing (name) VALUES ('Smith E'\\'& Jones'); > > must work. But it doesn't. I think you'll find the documentation says to use: SELECT E'Smith \\& Jones'; Note that the "E" precedes the quoted string, it isn't embedded in it. If there's an example in the docs that looks like yours, that's a bug. > But it mightn't if I upgrade from 8.2.3. Deprecated. Can't risk it. > So 40,000 years from now I'll be on 8.2.3. Doubtful - you're missing 9 releases of bugfixes already. Probably find all your data gets eaten by a bug long before then. Read the release notes for 8.2.x and upgrade to 8.2.<latest> at your earliest convenience. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general