String literals and escape characters in postgresql

Question

Attempting to insert an escape character into a table results in a warning.

For example:

create table EscapeTest (text varchar(50));

insert into Es         


        

Answer 1

Really stupid question: Are you sure the string is being truncated, and not just broken at the linebreak you specify (and possibly not showing in your interface)? Ie, do you expect the field to show as

This will be inserted \n This will not be

or

This will be inserted

This will not be

Also, what interface are you using? Is it possible that something along the way is eating your backslashes?