Hello,
'\' is an escape character, you should double it when you insert data :
insert into my_table values ('S:\\directory\\app');
I don't think it has much to do with database encoding.
Luc Jouneau
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eduardo S. Fontanetti" <dufuzzy@yahoo.com.br>
To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 3:04 PM
Subject: [ADMIN] Problem saving some characters
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to save a directory name on the Postgres,
> but it is "cutting" some characters, and the result is
> being diferent, and then, my app don't work properly.
>
> Example:
>
> I am trying to save "S:\directory\app" to a text field
> on the Postgres.
> When I do a Select, it returns "S:directoryapp".
>
> It could be caused by the encoding type? I am using
> the Latin2.
>
> Somebody could help me? Whatever, it could be from the
> ODBC driver, but I don't know how to test it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eduardo S. Fontanetti
>
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