Escaping in COPY

From: "Jeroen T(dot) Vermeulen" <jtv(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
To: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Escaping in COPY
Date: 2002-06-05 18:16:26
Message-ID: 20020605181626.GB2113@bulletproof
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How exactly does one escape tabs, newlines etc. when using COPY?

I remember reading somewhere that one just prefixes a backslash to them
before passing them to PQputline(). And indeed, that seems to work fine.

But when the data is retrieved using another COPY and PQgetline(), I
find the tabs are escaped as '\t'. I looked around the website and the
mailing list archives, but found nothing on this subject.

Can anyone tell me the definitive place to look?

TIA,

Jeroen

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