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From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of jkells
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:33 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] General coding question
General coding question. Can I insert a text string into a character varying column that contains a \ as is, meaning
noescaping of the character or is this a bad practice?
I.e: Column data
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description SUBDIV LOT 13 & N1\2 LOT 14
Thanks
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You never would actually store an "escaping" black-slash in the data. The need for an escape symbol occurs only during
dataentry and strictly depends on how you are entering data . As you have not provided those details further advice
cannotbe given.
David J.