On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:02, John Gage <jsmgage@numericable.fr> wrote:
> I think I should clarify my original "problem" and what I see as the
> difficulty in general.
>
> I saved a UTF-8 file with the pgAdmin Query tool, which added the BOM to the
> beginning of the file during the save.
>
> I then attempted to run the file using psql with the \i meta command.
>
> I got a syntax error pointing at the very beginning of the file which turned
> out to be on account of the BOM.
>
> In other words, files saved with pgAdmin3 Query tool cannot then be run as
> files of SQL commands by psql.
>
> The two applications are incompatible at that level.
FYI, psql in PostgreSQL 9.0 will ignore UTF8 BOMs.
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