On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Kovacs Zoltan writes:
>
> > In 7.0.2 I got
> > INSERT INTO foo (field) VALUES ('Hello,\012world!');
>
> > In 7.1beta4 I get
> > INSERT INTO foo (field) VALUES ('Hello,
> > world!');
>
> > Is it possible to add a switch to pg_dump to make it possible getting the
> > old output. Where can I balance it in the source if I'd like to change the
> > behaviour?
>
> I kind of agree that the old output should be preferred. Otherwise we
> might be entering a whole new world of CR/LF sort of problems.
>
> Btw., if I select the default COPY output, pg_dump seems to drop
> non-printable characters like '\001'.
OK, I found it. In pg_dump.c, function formatStringLiteral(), the line
containing '\n' and '\t' should be deleted (or check whether a switch is
on or not).
Zoltan
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