it's not bug. You didn't use any wild char. And like predicate isn't
defined for bytea. There is another strange behave
postgres=# select position(E'\\134\\134'::bytea in test) from backslashtest ;
position
----------
0
(1 row)
Regards
Pavel Stehule
>
> I create a table with a byte array column and insert a row with the byte 92
> into it (which is backslash). Then I want to select the row.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> create table backslashtest (test bytea null);
>
> insert into backslashtest values (E'\\134'::bytea);
>
> select * from backslashtest where test like E'\\134'::bytea;
>
> Result:
> select returns no rows
>
> Expected result:
> select should return the row I've inserted
>
> Other remarks:
> select * from backslashtest where test like E'\\134\\134'::bytea;
>
> does what I expected from the original select, but that's wrong because I
> don't want two backslashes, only one
>
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