Re: Escaping single quotes with backslash seems not to work

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 7:02 AM Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:

PG 9.6 and PG 14

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-CONSTANTS

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Any other character following a backslash is taken literally. Thus, to include a backslash character, write two backslashes (\\). Also, a single quote can be included in an escape string by writing \', in addition to the normal way of ''.

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The link you provided goes to the wrong subsection.  The following subsection, which discusses, String Constants With C-Style Escapes, requires that you write the literal as E'abc\'def'

Note the E prefix on the literal, which is the thing that enables considering backslash as an escape.