"David Sahagian" <david.sahagian@gmail.com> writes:
> Description: COPY TO does not respect the
> [standard_conforming_strings] setting
This is not a bug. The COPY format is well defined and is not going to
be changed by standard_conforming_strings.
> I want to use the output file as input to psql, for another db whose
> [standard_conforming_strings] is also = on. The current behavior of COPY TO
> makes that impossible.
That's nonsense. standard_conforming_strings won't affect the
interpretation of COPY data on either machine. If we were to change it
as you suggest, then we *would* have a compatibility problem.
regards, tom lane
