Re: Undocumented feature costs a lot of performance in COPY IN

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Yes, please fix it. In fact, I think we should throw an error if more
> than one character is specified as a delimiter. Saying we ignore
> multiple characters in the documentation is not enough when we silently
> ignore them in the code.

Well, it'd be an easy enough addition:

if (strlen(delim) != 1)
elog(ERROR, "COPY delimiter must be a single character");

This isn't multibyte-aware, but then neither is the implementation;
delimiters that are multibyte characters won't work at the moment.

Any comments out there?

regards, tom lane