Re: \xDD patch for 7.5devel - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: \xDD patch for 7.5devel
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Msg-id 3FA8FB48.7080106@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: \xDD patch for 7.5devel  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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>>This is my first patch for PostgreSQL against the 7.5devel cvs (please advise if this is the wrong place to post
patches). This patch simply enables the \xDD (or \XDD) hexadecimal import in the copy command (im starting with the
simplestuff first).  I did notice that there may be a need to issue an error if an invalid octal or hex character is
foundfollowing a \ or \x.  No errors are currently flagged by the octal (or this hex) import.
 
> 
> 
> I think this belongs into the string literal parser (at least in addition
> to COPY).

That's what always happens when I start working on something - someone 
points out something that makes it 100 times harder :P

Chris




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