Tom Lane wrote:
> Nick Barr <nicky(at)chuckie(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
>
>>intranet=# select track_name from ms_track where track_name ~ '^\(';
>>ERROR: invalid regular expression: parentheses () not balanced
>
>
> You've forgotten that the string-literal parser will eat one level of
> backslashing. You need
>
> intranet=# select track_name from ms_track where track_name ~ '^\\(';
>
> to get that backslash into the regex parser.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
>
Doh,
Thanks guys.
Nick