title: String literals and escape characters in postgresql
body: <p>Attempting to insert an escape character into a table results in a warning. </p>
  
  <p>For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>create table EscapeTest (text varchar(50));
  
  insert into EscapeTest (text) values ('This is the first part \n And this is the second');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Produces the warning:</p>
  
  <pre><code>WARNING:  nonstandard use of escape in a string literal
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(<em>Using PSQL 8.2</em>)</p>
  
  <p>Anyone know how to get around this?</p>