Re: CSVlog vs tabs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: CSVlog vs tabs
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Msg-id 28472.1181963441@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to CSVlog vs tabs  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> One issue I notice is that it mangles the log message to add a tab 
> character before each newline. We do this in standard text logs to make 
> them more readable for humans. but the whole point of having CSV logs is 
> to make them machine readable, and I'm rather inclined to think this 
> sort of behaviour is both unnecessary and undesirable.  So I'm intending 
> to leave it out for CSV logs.

Right, the tabs are only there to disambiguate the plain-text format.
        regards, tom lane


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