On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:17:40PM +0100, Marco Colombo wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> To the list: Does pg_dump escape characters that are the same as the > >> delimiter? > > > > Yes. The OP has not actually explained why he needs to pick a > > nondefault delimiter, unless maybe it is that he wants to feed the > > dump to some program that is too dumb to deal with escaping. > > > > regards, tom lane > > > > Which makes me wonder, does copy accept UTF-8 input? Yes, but... > Is it possibile to use some unicode character which is unlikely to > appear in the data set as delimiter? Something like U+FFFC. No. The delimiter needs to be one byte long at the moment. The error message you're getting probably needs an update. Bug? > $ psql -c "\copy test from '2.txt' delimiter ●" > ERROR: COPY delimiter must be a single character > \copy: ERROR: COPY delimiter must be a single character Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
