| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal: new pg_dump options --copy-delimiter and |
| Date: | 2006-01-27 18:22:22 |
| Message-ID: | 1138386142.3074.31.camel@swithin |
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On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:12 -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Personally I find anything that would encourage people to use anything other
> than tabs evil anyways. All those people who think | is somehow a reasonable
> choice or want to use commas and then get all confused trying to escape them
> and invent ever more confused syntaxes for escaping the escape characters.
> Just use tab separated data like man was meant to.
>
I could not disagree more. The invisibility of tabs makes their use as a
delimiter wholly evil. I have lost count of the number of corrupted
makefiles etc. I have seen because a tab got converted to a space and it
was impossible to tell.
More tears have been shed over tabs used than tabs unused. (Apologies to
St Theresa).
We now return you to normal -hacking.
cheers
andrew
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