Re: Identical command-line command will not work with \i metacommand and filename

From: John Gage <jsmgage(at)numericable(dot)fr>
To: Scott Mead <scott(dot)lists(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres General Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Identical command-line command will not work with \i metacommand and filename
Date: 2010-04-22 07:24:05
Message-ID: 0303826F-ADFF-461E-A10C-D5FF5654E1BB@numericable.fr
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Yeesh. What the ding-dong is this?

JohnGage:EFNWebsite johngage$ od -a CopySql.sql
0000000 ? ? ? s e l e c t sp * sp f r o m
0000020 sp m e s h _ d e s c r i p t o r
0000040 s ; nl nl

What are the ?'s. Mon Dieu, what is going on?

This is a file that runs perfectly well in pgAdmin and that I edit in
Vim.

Sorry to be so ignorant and thanks,

John Gage

On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:34 AM, Scott Mead wrote:

> Do you have some funky hidden characters at the beginning of the file?
>
> run:
>
> od -a CopySql.sql
>

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