Looking for "proper" escape string syntax from pg_get_constraintdef

I am trying to recreate a domain definition from information in
pg_catalog and getting the following warnings:

WARNING: nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal
LINE 3: CHECK (((VALUE ~ '^\\d{4}$'::text) OR (VALUE ~ '^\\d{5}-\\...
^
HINT: Use the escape string syntax for backslashes, e.g., E'\\'.
WARNING: nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal
LINE 3: CHECK (((VALUE ~ '^\\d{4}$'::text) OR (VALUE ~ '^\\d{5}-\\...
^
HINT: Use the escape string syntax for backslashes, e.g., E'\\'.

My original domain definition is this:

create domain "public"."us_postal_code"
as "pg_catalog"."text"
CHECK (((VALUE ~ E'^\\d{4}$'::text) OR (VALUE ~ E'^\\d{5}-\\d{4}$'::text)));

but retrieving the constraint definition using pg_get_constraintdef(oid)
gives me this:

CHECK (((VALUE ~ '^\\d{4}$'::text) OR (VALUE ~ '^\\d{5}-\\d{4}$'::text)))

How can I get the constraint definition with proper escaping from the
catalog? Is there another function I should be using?

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Marc