Re: Text data type doesn't accept newlines?

Randall Perry wrote:
> I have a logging database that logs errors. The error messages contain
> newlines. Pgsql doesn't accept them on insert in a text data field.
>
> MySQL has the 'blob' data type which does accept newlines.
>
> Do I have to convert all newlines to '\n' to use them in Pgsql?

I don't see a reason why it shouldn't accept them, and the
last time I stuffed html pages into via libpgtcl it worked
IIRC.

What interface does your client use?

Jan

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