At 12:47 PM 12/08/2004, Tom Lane wrote:
Backslashes are not special inside
dollar quotes --- nor is anything else, except the matching close tag

If they are not special, then shouldnt:

   select $a$\$a$;

result in

   ?column?
      \

rather than an error?

Oops. It does.




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