Re: Inserting a tab character - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Ludwig Lim
Subject Re: Inserting a tab character
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Msg-id 20030205075914.79433.qmail@web80303.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to Inserting a tab character  ("Luke Pascoe" <luke.p@kmg.co.nz>)
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--- Luke Pascoe <luke.p@kmg.co.nz> wrote:
> I have a table which defines various possible file
> delimiters (CHAR(1) NOT
> NULL), for the moment it'll only contain comma and
> tab. Inserting a comma is
> easy, but inserting a tab is proving somewhat more
> difficult.
> 
> How do I do it in 'psql'?
> 
 --> Try using '\t' for tab.
Example :  INSERT INTO table1(f1) values ('\t');
  I'm not sure if inserting a TAB character will
cause some side-effects for commands like COPY FROM /
TO since these commands use tab to delimit fields.

Hope that helps,

ludwig

Hope that helps,
ludwig.


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