Re: Add switches for DELIMITER and NULL in pg_dump COPY

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:26:00AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:03:00AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Did anyone provide a convincing use case for this?
>
> > I've had one so far, and it was enough to cause me to make a
> > special patched version of pg_dump. To get some idea of how
> > drastic that was, consider that I think it's generally bad
> > practice to compile from source because it can take you too far
> > off the "generally supported software" map. The case I had was
> > making a database with a schema and initial data whose dump output
> > gets checked into a source code management system.
>
> So? Don't tell me your SCMS can't handle tabs.

Not everybody's editor/mailer/whatever does this right, and it makes
things fragile. Another way to do this is to change the delimter to a
printable character like '|', but that raises hackles, too.

Cheers,
D
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