Re: EOL on OS X - Mailing list pgsql-ports

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: EOL on OS X
Date
Msg-id 18291.1050712997@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: EOL on OS X  ("Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>)
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"Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov> writes:
> At 7:38 PM -0400 4/18/03, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> What is the default end-of-line character on OS X?  7.4 COPY will
>> support \n, \r, and \r\n, and I need to know that to use as a default on
>> OS X.

> Traditional Mac is to use \r.  However OSX is really Unix underneath
> where Postgres works so I think it would be better to stick with \n.

Yeah.  I'd concur with accepting bare \r as newline, but not ever using
it as default.

            regards, tom lane


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