Port Bug Report: Non alphanumeric characters in a text string

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Your name        : Cullin Wible
Your email address    : cwible@tlgm.com

Category        : runtime: back-end
Severity        : non-critical

Summary: Non alphanumeric characters in a text string

System Configuration
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  Operating System   : Linux 2.0.34 ELF RedHat

  PostgreSQL version : 6.3.2-4

  Compiler used      : 2.7.2.3

Hardware:
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Pentium II 266Mhz, 64MB Ram, SCSI2 9GB Drive
Linux swdev.tlgm.com 2.0.34 #1 Fri May 8 16:05:57 EDT 1998 i686 unknown

Versions of other tools:
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Problem Description:
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When trying to insert non-alphanumeric characters in a string
such as "\" it becomes necessary to back quote them. This
works fine, for example "\%" becomes "%" in the database, however
a "\\" stays as it is. THis makes it impossible to ever end
up with the text "\*" in the databse. If you try the logical
"\\\*" to do that, it results in "\\*" which is not what I wanted.


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Test Case:
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Try inserting any data in the above format.

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Solution:
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Fix the function wich un-does the back quoteing.

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