"Daniel Verite" <daniel@manitou-mail.org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> If it is a newline-conversion problem, compressed pg_dump archives would
>> be just as subject to corruption as your binary COPY file is.
> It's mentioned in [1] that the signature at the beginning of these files
> embed a CRLF to detect this newline-conversion problem early on,
Oh, I'd forgotten about that.
> so I would expect COPY IN to stumble on a corrupted signature
> and abort earlier in the process, if that conversion occurred.
Right. I'm probably barking up the wrong tree, then.
regards, tom lane
