Re: how to preserve \n in select statement

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:06:28 -0500, Matt Van Mater <nutter_@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have a table that has a few text value types, and I enter a bunch of text 
> with '\n' representing a newline.  When I select the records from that 
> table, postgresql 7.3 represents those \n as newlines and actually outputs 
> the a newline rather than as a \n as entered.  I want to be able to get my 
> \n text out of the select statement in the exact same manner it was 
> inserted.

If you really want to store \n so that something else will interpret \n
as a newline, then use '\\n' in the string constant.