Re: allow CSV quote in NULL - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: allow CSV quote in NULL
Date
Msg-id 20070729231715.GB4908@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: allow CSV quote in NULL  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
List pgsql-patches
Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > >   Please find attached a minor patch to remove the constraints that a
> > >   user can't include the delimiter or quote characters in a 'NULL AS'
> > >   string when importing CSV files.
> >
> > This can't really be sane can it?
>
> hm?  It's a problem I've run into a number of times and I finally got
> fed up with it enough to create a patch for it.

I've seen people in the same situation before, so this makes sense from
that perspective.  If there's a vote, the patch gets a +1 from me.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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