> > > Personally, I don't think I would need it, but it sounds useful (and
> > > needed) if there's no other place to store "strange" data. There's also
> > > the question of defaults. For Windows it should be the current behavior.
> > > For Unix, perhaps the default should be no conversion? (I don't know if
> > > it's difficult to set something different for another platform.. perhaps
> > > ignore me..?).
> >
> > It's not difficult to change the behavior between Windows
> > and the others. It doesn't seem that difficult to add an
> > option to enable/disable <LF> <-> <CR><LF> conversion either.
> > The problem is that we have already too many options.
> > The more we have options the longer the connection string
> > would be. We are already using abbrebiated connection
> > strings in psqlodbc driver and don't have many bytes
> > to spare for connection strings.
> > Well is the option worth adding ?
>
> Ok. I understand the dilemma. In that case, perhaps it would make sense
> for it to be a compile time option, with defaults as I mentioned. It
> seems most likely to be platform dependent, and probably set only once
> anyway. This way the windows driver at least wouldn't change at all
> ...back to the list. Comments anyone?
Compile-time options are even less attractive -- perhaps some
auto-sensing code that looked at the first line and determined the
proper behavior.
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