Thread: BUG #1341: problem when showing resulted in the screen

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      1341
Logged by:          Pablo Borges

Email address:      pablodev@hotmail.com

PostgreSQL version: 7.4.6

Operating system:   Linux Slackware

Description:        problem when showing resulted in the screen

Details:

 select * from teleoperador;
 id |  login   |           ip           | tipo
----+----------+------------------------+------
  0 | pablo    | 10.0.0.106             | C
  1 | builder  | 10.0.0.107
10.0.0.107 | C
  2 | reinaldo | 10.0.0.105             | C
(3 rows)


\d teleoperador
                                Table "public.teleoperador"
 Column |       Type        |                          Modifiers
--------+-------------------+----------------------------------------------
----------------
 id     | integer           | not null default
nextval('public.teleoperador_id_seq'::text)
 login  | character varying |
 ip     | character varying | not null
 tipo   | character(1)      | not null
Indexes:
    "teleoperador_pkey" primary key, btree (id)
    "teleoperador_login_key" unique, btree (login)

is one bug?

"PostgreSQL Bugs List" <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org> writes:
>  select * from teleoperador;
>  id |  login   |           ip           | tipo
> ----+----------+------------------------+------
>   0 | pablo    | 10.0.0.106             | C
>   1 | builder  | 10.0.0.107
> 10.0.0.107 | C
>   2 | reinaldo | 10.0.0.105             | C
> (3 rows)

Looks to me like you managed to store a carriage return or newline
character (\r or \n) in the ip column.

Is there a reason for using varchar rather than the inet datatype
for that column?  inet would give you some error checking, which
you evidently need.

            regards, tom lane