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magic-removal: Small improvement to docs/db-api.txt

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@ -1035,11 +1035,12 @@ equivalent::
Escaping parenthesis and underscores in LIKE statements
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The field lookups that equate to ``LIKE`` SQL statements will automatically
escape the two special characters used in ``LIKE`` statements -- the percent
sign and the underscore. (In a ``LIKE`` statement, the percent sign signifies
a multiple-character wildcard and the underscore signifies a single-character
wildcard.)
The field lookups that equate to ``LIKE`` SQL statements (``iexact``,
``contains``, ``icontains``, ``startswith``, ``istartswith``, ``endswith``
and ``iendswith``) will automatically escape the two special characters used in
``LIKE`` statements -- the percent sign and the underscore. (In a ``LIKE``
statement, the percent sign signifies a multiple-character wildcard and the
underscore signifies a single-character wildcard.)
This means things should work intuitively, so the abstraction doesn't leak.
For example, to retrieve all the entries that contain a percent sign, just use