Thread: line length line break issue

we had someone make a php app that was a form fill-in type of questionaire.
They stored all data into postgres as vchar type columns.  Now the problem we
have is that
1) rows retrieved from select include cr/lf chars from the form, makeing a row
multi lines long
2) rows are so long that their not useable and we can find a useable delimeter

I've tried using
\pset recordsep "^"
 (and other chars along with the caret) but it seems the postgress is not
using that character.  My thinking was to strip all cr/lf, the replace the
caret with a newline.  Then we could bring the data into something like
excel.

The problem is the recordsep doesn't seem to work.  Any thoughts?
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David Bear
College of Public Programs/ASU

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 06:00:57PM -0700, David Bear wrote:
> \pset recordsep "^"
>  (and other chars along with the caret) but it seems the postgress is not
> using that character.  My thinking was to strip all cr/lf, the replace the
> caret with a newline.  Then we could bring the data into something like
> excel.

recordsep is for the character _between records_.  But the cr/lf you
have in the data is inside your records.

What you probably want to do is to experiment with the regular
expressions facilities of PostgreSQL, and use the text-manipulation
functions to get rid of the cr/lf.  Or, you could edit the dump file
using, say, sed, and then import the data again.  Obviously, you also
need to fix the PHP.

A


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