| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Rick Jones <RJones(at)NAHRO(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Pgsql-Novice (E-mail)" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Inserting TEXT with multiple lines |
| Date: | 2001-01-22 22:00:56 |
| Message-ID: | 9067.980200856@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Rick Jones <RJones(at)NAHRO(dot)org> writes:
> In my table there is a "synopsis" field that I want to change so that it
> displays with line breaks (ColdFusion client). Is there an easy way to do
> this? I've tried INSERT. I've used COPY ... FROM with the table and then
> made the modification (using \n for the carriage returns) then tried COPY
> ... TO. When I do that I get the following error:
"\n" should work to represent a newline in COPY data.
> ": can't parse "ne 1, pg_atoi: error in "112
Looks to me like your editor changed all the line endings to \r\n.
Try using a less Windows-ish editor.
regards, tom lane
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