diff --git a/src/bin/pgbench/exprscan.l b/src/bin/pgbench/exprscan.l
index 5c1bd881283..61c20364ed1 100644
--- a/src/bin/pgbench/exprscan.l
+++ b/src/bin/pgbench/exprscan.l
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ nonspace		[^ \t\r\f\v\n]
 newline			[\n]
 
 /* Line continuation marker */
-continuation	\\{newline}
+continuation	\\\r?{newline}
 
 /* case insensitive keywords */
 and				[Aa][Nn][Dd]
@@ -122,8 +122,12 @@ notnull			[Nn][Oo][Tt][Nn][Uu][Ll][Ll]
 	 * a continuation marker just after a word:
 	 */
 {nonspace}+{continuation}	{
-					/* Found "word\\\n", emit and return just "word" */
-					psqlscan_emit(cur_state, yytext, yyleng - 2);
+					/* Found "word\\\r?\n", emit and return just "word" */
+					int		wordlen = yyleng - 2;
+					if (yytext[wordlen] == '\r')
+						wordlen--;
+					Assert(yytext[wordlen] == '\\');
+					psqlscan_emit(cur_state, yytext, wordlen);
 					return 1;
 				}