Re: COPY FROM is not 8bit clean - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@ok-connect.com> writes:
> When useing COPY FROM 'file' DELIMITER '\254' copyfrom reads past the
> delimiter and ends up with parse errors when trying to do the insert

Are you perhaps operating in a multibyte encoding in which \254 is
just the first byte of a multibyte character?

I'm not sure what we do in such a case, and even less sure what we
should do ... but I am entirely prepared to believe that we don't
do the Right Thing ...

            regards, tom lane