Re: Proper quoting of \e ?

Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
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> Hello !
> We have a database in SQL_ASCII in postgres 7.2.1 which contains among
> other information document titles which are automatically retrieved.
> I took care of quoting "`" but recently stumpled about "\e" which I
> have problems working with. Example (in psql, but in php it is the same):
>
> SELECT title from written_by where title like 'An equation of state {\%';
> title
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> An equation of state {\em \`a la} Carnahan-Starling for a five-dimensional fluid of hard hyperspheres
> (1 row)
>
> works, but if I take one character more (or, later, the entire title),
> it does not:
>
> SELECT title from written_by where title like 'An equation of state {\e%';

I noticed you escaped the % in the first query, but not the second. No
idea how that effects things.

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