-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tom, Hi list,
(I'm the same as [EMAIL PROTECTED] who started this thread, this is my regular address, you may compare the gpg-keys if in doubt :) On 4 Sep 2008 at 11:51, Tom Lane wrote: > > Aren't you looking for standard_conforming_strings? Of course I did and I mentioned my configuration as: backslash_quote=off and standard_conforming_strings=on So it should be as close to the SQL standard as ever possible. > backslash_quote is something else entirely, and doesn't actually > do anything at all when backslash escaping is disabled. Yes, this was my preferred behaviour at all. But I don't see a way: How can backslashes be stopped from escaping themselves in like-statements if not by setting both params as "backslash_quote=off" and "standard_conforming_strings=on" and when not using the "escape" flag? > > 2. What I do not understand: Why does the fourth statement return a result > > as backslash_quote is off? > > It looks like a perfectly good match to me. Hmm, I really would have expected the same behaviour of backslashes between an equal comparison and a like comparison as backslashes according to your view and to my conviction are irrelevant in that case. In short: The following statements always should return the same result in a table of just one row, but they do not. this returns a row: select * from tbl_test_escaping where test_comment = 'test "\te%s_t<\''\>'; this does not return a row: select * from tbl_test_escaping where test_comment like '%<\''\>%'; Is this very different behaviour in string handling really intentional? To have to escape backslashes in _another_ way depending on "=" or "like" even if conforming strings is on and any special backslash handling is off, sounds actually very strange and rather unwanted to me. And what makes me wonder is that I can make it work by adding the escape flag only in like statement, which I do not need in the case of an equal: this works fine, too: select * from tbl_test_escaping where test_comment like '%<\''\>%' escape ''; I'm just looking for any way of configuration where I get this behaviour but have not to add the escape '' -flag in every single like-statement. Regards, Rainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: idw's PGP-Frontend 5.1.0.0 / 4-2006 + PGP 6.5.8 Comment: KEY: 0x231D96D8 - FP: 9E01C5D7 7041D0C4 804F4705 76216606 231D96D8 iQA/AwUBSMABv3YhZgYjHZbYEQLAQQCdGOXvt0LWMlzgUZTe1YxBUi3gy1wAnjOh KHULNV/I/ssb6VNZUYtx/gCq =w+9P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs