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From: "Hannu Krosing" <hannu@tm.ee>
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> Regarding the dollar-quoting discussions -
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> Will we be able to write the above query as
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> SELECT smth. FROM tbl WHERE WHERE situation LIKE $$%\\%$$;
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Yes, as I understand it (as long as you remove the one of the WHEREs :-) ).
If not we need some rethinking. Think of this as our equivalent of XML's
CDATA quoting - you don't need to escape & or < or > inside a CDATA node.
> in 7.4 or is \ still special there ?
I don't believe so.
cheers
andrew