On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'd be okay with swallowing a leading BOM if and only if client encoding
> is UTF8. This should apply to any file psql reads, whether script or
> data.
Yeah. The one case that doesn't solve is:
cat f1.sql f2.sql | psql ...
Which is common usage in deployment systems where combining things
inside a single transaction scope is important.
There is no way for psql to handle that case though unless you'd strip
*all* BOMs encountered. Compounding this problem is that there's no
practical way AFAIK to send multiple file to psql via single command
line invocation. If you pass multiple -f arguments all but one is
ignored.
merlin
