Re: \n converted to \r\n

There's a setting on page 2 of the Advanced options of the Windows driver
applet which says:

LF <-> CR/LF conversion

Seems like a good place to start ;)

Ben

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Eckermann [mailto:jeff_eckermann(at)yahoo(dot)com]
> Sent: 01 October 2004 14:57
> To: Amir Zicherman; pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ODBC] \n converted to \r\n
>
>
> --- Amir Zicherman <amir(dot)zicherman(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm currently running version 07_03_0200 of the
> > Insight Distribution
> > Systems PostgreSQL Driver for windows. when I
> > retrieve col1 string
> > from the database using: "SELECT * FROM MyTable
> > WHERE col1='hello\n'"
> > the value returned for col1 through the driver is
> "hello\r\n", and I
> > want it to be as it is stored in the database
> > ('hello\n" with no \r).
> > Is this a configuration issue? If so, where can I
> > change the
> > configuration to ensure that this conversion won't
> > happen?
>
> I don't believe that there is any user-settable option
> to disable that functionality. The driver assumes
> that the returned value will (or may) be required for
> display, so on Windows, \r\n is the appropriate
> combination. No doubt this makes sense 99.9% of the
> time.
>
> Perhaps if you could tell us what it is that you are
> trying to do, someone on the list can suggest a
> workaround that will do the job for you.
>

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