Re: pset, NULL, and COPY-reporting - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pset, NULL, and COPY-reporting
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Msg-id 28183.1433365933@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pset, NULL, and COPY-reporting  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tuesday, June 2, 2015, John Bell <jzb@ornl.gov> wrote:
>> Due to some level of ignorance at install-time, our "psql" clients on two
>> different production computers appear to have different values for /null/:

> You can decide what to have null output as using pset variables.  See the
> documentation.  The default could have changed between versions, maybe...

No, I don't think so --- but possibly one machine has a setting in
~/.psqlrc that the other doesn't.

>> At the same time, one of these computers reports the number of rows
>> read-in with
>> a "\copy TABLE FROM FILE" command as "COPY 123", while the other computer
>> does not.

> Pretty sure the copy behavior is always on but version dependent.

Yeah, psql 9.4 started doing that.

            regards, tom lane


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