Re: Good Delimiter for copy command

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: sharmi_jo(at)yahoo(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk>
Subject: Re: Good Delimiter for copy command
Date: 2009-02-12 21:41:45
Message-ID: 17248.1234474905@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> To the list: Does pg_dump escape characters that are the same as the
> delimiter?

Yes. The OP has not actually explained why he needs to pick a
nondefault delimiter, unless maybe it is that he wants to feed the
dump to some program that is too dumb to deal with escaping.

regards, tom lane

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