Re: utf8 COPY DELIMITER?

> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > The message in question should be something like:
> > "COPY delimiter must be a single ASCII character"
>
> If we phrase it like that we should enforce it like that --- ie, reject
> high-bit-set characters.
>
> But I'm a bit hesitant to do so, because it actually does work fine to
> use a high-bit-set character as a delimiter as long as client and server
> encodings are the same LATINx set. We'd be taking away functionality
> for European users for no very good reason.
>
> Is it worth going to the trouble of distinguish same-encoding and
> different-encoding cases and applying a looser check for the former
> case?

I think yes. Seems a good idea.

Even better, however, is fixing the CVS escaping and quoting I
think. Clearly it's a bug.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan