QuoteSQL

[Sybren Stuvel]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> Because quoting the wildcards introduces backslash specials before
> each wildcard. Quoting non-wildcards then causes those backslashes
> to be doubled, which means they escape themselves instead of the
> wildcards.

I don't know about other DBMSes, but in PostgreSQL you can use any
escape character for the pattern, check out
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-matching.html

Sybren
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