Re: multiline CSV fields

Tom Lane wrote:
> Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> writes:
> > Endlessly extending the COPY command doesn't seem like a winning
> > proposition to me and I think if we aren't comfortable telling every user
> > to write a script to pre/post-process the data we should instead provide a
> > bulk loader/unloader that transforms things to our limited COPY
> > functionality. There are all kinds of feature requests I've seen
> > along these lines that would make COPY a million option mess if we try to
> > support all of it directly.
>
> I agree completely --- personally I'd not have put CSV into the backend
> either.

What pushed us was the large number of request for it.

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