diff --git a/src/backend/parser/scan.l b/src/backend/parser/scan.l
index 161a32861f624fbcc0b2f2a34163ee948a1955e6..8fa672f01822ee8442bad7f7ca1f91415f528098 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/scan.l
+++ b/src/backend/parser/scan.l
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/parser/scan.l,v 1.123 2005/06/02 01:23:08 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/parser/scan.l,v 1.124 2005/06/02 17:45:17 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ xnstart			[nN]{quote}
 xqstart			{quote}
 xqdouble		{quote}{quote}
 xqinside		[^\\']+
-xqescape		[\\][^0-7x]
+xqescape		[\\][^0-7]
 xqoctesc		[\\][0-7]{1,3}
 xqhexesc		[\\]x[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,2}
 
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/psqlscan.l b/src/bin/psql/psqlscan.l
index d0e1dc80d202546566661c8d6ad9add8299ab8e4..a093b3703f5d6ad31f73088d24a995ecb0269904 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/psqlscan.l
+++ b/src/bin/psql/psqlscan.l
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/psqlscan.l,v 1.13 2005/06/02 01:23:48 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/psqlscan.l,v 1.14 2005/06/02 17:45:19 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ xnstart			[nN]{quote}
 xqstart			{quote}
 xqdouble		{quote}{quote}
 xqinside		[^\\']+
-xqescape		[\\][^0-7x]
+xqescape		[\\][^0-7]
 xqoctesc		[\\][0-7]{1,3}
 xqhexesc		[\\]x[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,2}