Re: sql-files with control characters at the beginning

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Andreas Laggner <andreas(dot)laggner(at)vti(dot)bund(dot)de>
Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: sql-files with control characters at the beginning
Date: 2010-02-24 15:00:46
Message-ID: 937d27e11002240700m555babcv8f1b856a186e8f36@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Andreas Laggner
<andreas(dot)laggner(at)vti(dot)bund(dot)de> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> i want to execute my sql-files, written with pgadmin 1.10.0 (from
> binaries for openSuse 11.2 64bit) directly on the server via nohup. But
> since 1.10 (i never had that problem in 1.08) the sql-file saved by
> pgadmin begins with 3 control characters. I can only see these
> characters, if i open the sql-file with mc and go to edit hexadecimal -
> i can replace these three by 20 20 20 (three space) and then i can run
> the sql-file, otherwise psql returns: syntax error at or near <feff>.
> This occurs on openSuse 11.2 64bit and on openSuse 11.1 64bit. Why puts
> pgadmin thiese three characters to my files??

See http://archives.postgresql.org/pgadmin-support/2010-02/msg00097.php

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