On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:54:37AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz> writes:
> > The problem with CSV is that it will correctly work with new protocol
> > only. Because old versions of clients are newline sensitive.
>
> Why? The client-side code doesn't have any real say over the meaning of
> the data, at least not in psql-class clients. I suppose a client app
> that tries to interpret the data could get confused, but psql sure
> doesn't do that.
libpq, fe-protocol2.c, pqGetCopyData2() and pqGetline2() cut stringbehind '\n'.
Karel
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