Re: initdb failure (was Re: [GENERAL] sequence's plpgsql)

Tom Lane wrote:
> > ERROR: literal carriage return found in data
> > HINT: Use "\r" to represent carriage return.
> > CONTEXT: COPY FROM, line 41
>
> Really? 7.2 should dump data \r or \n as the backslash versions ...
> and does in my tests. Can you make a reproducible test case?
>
>
>
> > It would be nice to have such occurances echo the table / row they are
> > getting the error on, or maybe just the first 20 or so characters, so
> > they'd be easier to identify.
>
> That's not a bad idea. I think it would be fairly easy now for the
> CONTEXT line of the error message to include the input data line:
>
> CONTEXT: COPY FROM, line 41: "data here ...."
>
> at least up through the field where the error gets thrown, and with some
> limit on the length of the data that will get echoed. If people like
> that idea I'll see about making it happen.

Also, he wanted table name too.

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