Thread: Re: [BUGS] COPY FROM is not 8bit clean

Re: [BUGS] COPY FROM is not 8bit clean

From
Tatsuo Ishii
Date:
> When useing COPY FROM 'file' DELIMITER '\254' copyfrom reads past the
> delimiter and ends up with parse errors when trying to do the insert
> 
> 
> What the ?? why dind' tthat go through with the body of the text.. *sigh*
> I'll resend in the AM.. 

Good catch. It's definitely a bug in copy command. Please try
following patches (this is against 7.2).

*** src/backend/commands/copy.c.orig    Tue Feb 26 21:11:05 2002
--- src/backend/commands/copy.c    Tue Feb 26 21:11:35 2002
***************
*** 1024,1030 **** CopyReadAttribute(FILE *fp, bool *isnull, char *delim, int *newline, char *null_print) {     int
      c;
 
!     int            delimc = delim[0];  #ifdef MULTIBYTE     int            mblen;
--- 1024,1030 ---- CopyReadAttribute(FILE *fp, bool *isnull, char *delim, int *newline, char *null_print) {     int
      c;
 
!     int            delimc = (unsigned char)delim[0];  #ifdef MULTIBYTE     int            mblen;