Marco Colombo <marco@xxxxxx> writes: > Exaclty. Or, one could say: the "standard" text format is the one the > platform you are running on dictates. Which is what python does. Egads. So the set of valid Python programs is different depending on what platform you're on? That's just, uhm, insane. So essentially Python isn't a single language, it's a set of languages, Python-NL, Python-NLCR, Python-CR, (and in theory others). So if I generate a database with a Python-CRNL function on windows, then pg_dump it and load it on Unix the function won't run because it's the wrong language, Unix only supports Python-NL. I don't think it's reasonable for pg_dump to think about converting data from one language to another. It's important for pg_dump to restore an identical database. Having it start with special case data conversation from one flavour to another seems too dangerous. Incidentally, are we sure we've diagnosed this correctly? I'm discussing this with some Python developers and they're expressing skepticism. One just tried a quick test with a Python program containing a mixture of all three newline flavours and it ran fine. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
