Re: Cut / Paste issue

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Blake McBride <blake(at)mcbride(dot)name>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Cut / Paste issue
Date: 2011-06-13 22:33:11
Message-ID: 1308004392.1969.24.camel@laptop
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On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 00:29 +0200, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 15:39 -0500, Blake McBride wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Interesting inconsistency in the cut / paste operation in pgAdmin. I
> > am using 1.14.0 beta 2.
> >
> > If you View the top 100 rows you get a spreadsheet like display
> > showing the rows. If you then select a row (not its data) and copy
> > it. You then paste it (to the scratch pad buffer below for example)
> > and the paste operation puts double quotes around the data. This is a
> > real pain because SQL uses single quotes. If you attempt to use the
> > data in a query you have to replace the double quotes auto-added in
> > the paste operation with single quotes. It would be better if it
> > auto-added single quotes. This would be more consistent with SQL.
> >
>
> But the copy doesn't try to be compatible with SQL. It's a CSV-like
> copy.
>

And you can change it in the options dialog (tab "Query tool", checkbox
"Result copy quote character").

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Guillaume
http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info
http://www.dalibo.com

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