Re: Proposal: new pg_dump options --copy-delimiter and --copy-null - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Proposal: new pg_dump options --copy-delimiter and --copy-null
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Msg-id 1626.1138371131@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Proposal: new pg_dump options --copy-delimiter and --copy-null  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:17:05PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Seems to me that "psql -c 'COPY ...'" is a more likely front-end for
>> such a process.

> Actually, it's not.  I'm attaching my preliminary patch, as I see I
> haven't explained it well enough.

The patch conveys nothing you didn't explain already, and I still don't
see why one would use pg_dump instead of psql.  If you use pg_dump then
you have to cope with a pile of random SQL and comments as well as the
actual data.
        regards, tom lane


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