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From: "Hannu Krosing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Regarding the dollar-quoting discussions -
>
> Will we be able to write the above query as
>
> SELECT smth. FROM  tbl WHERE WHERE situation LIKE $$%\\%$$;
>

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


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