[SQL] how to preserve \n in select statement

[Matt Van Mater]

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.

I found a workaround where I can use the copy to command to copy a table to 
a text file, and the command preserves the \n characters.  The problem with 
that is the copy to command overwrites the output file every time it is 
written to.  That stinks because then I can't run multiple queries and 
direct the output to a file all at once.  (I would prefer to set the output 
file as  \o '/path/to/oufile.txt' and have all queries dump their results 
there)

Is there a way to make the select statement not interpret newline escape 
characters?

Matt Van Mater

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