Re: CSV mode option for pg_dump

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, matthew(at)zeut(dot)net, bbartlett(at)softwareanalytics(dot)com, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CSV mode option for pg_dump
Date: 2006-06-13 15:21:17
Message-ID: 448ED7ED.1090001@dunslane.net
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

>
>Side note: In my experience Excel happily slurps up tab delimited
>output, so I'm not sure why all of this is an issue in the first place.
>
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>

I guess you experience doesn't run to data that has embedded tabs, for
example.

There really is a reason we did this in the first place, and it wasn't
for fun.

cheers

andrew

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