Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with: > Because quoting the wildcards introduces backslash specials before > each wildcard. Quoting non-wildcards then causes those backslashes > to be doubled, which means they escape themselves instead of the > wildcards.
I don't know about other DBMSes, but in PostgreSQL you can use any escape character for the pattern, check out http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-matching.html Sybren -- Sybren Stüvel Stüvel IT - http://www.stuvel.eu/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
