Re: [BUGS] BUG #2221: Bad delimiters allowed in COPY ... - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [BUGS] BUG #2221: Bad delimiters allowed in COPY ...
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Msg-id 200702052240.l15MesV09047@momjian.us
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In response to Re: [BUGS] BUG #2221: Bad delimiters allowed in COPY ...  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Attached is a patch that errors for \r and \n in delimiter and
> > null.
>
> I am not convinced that this is a bug.  Can you prove that there is no
> use-case for asking COPY to emit data in this style?  Sure, COPY itself
> couldn't read it, but people sometimes feed COPY output to other
> programs...

FYI, Tom, old email from Feb 1, 2006, from your server:

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