Re: how to preserve \n in select statement

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:06:28 -0500,
Matt Van Mater <nutter_(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 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.

If you really want to store \n so that something else will interpret \n
as a newline, then use '\\n' in the string constant.