Re: dollar-quoting in psql and in general

>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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