David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:17:40PM +0100, Marco Colombo wrote: >> 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 â??" >> ERROR: COPY delimiter must be a single character >> \copy: ERROR: COPY delimiter must be a single character In 8.3 and CVS HEAD these messages are phrased as "must be a single ASCII character" which I suppose is someone's attempt at improving the situation; but IMHO this has replaced an imprecision with a lie. It works fine with non-ASCII characters, if you're working in a single-byte encoding (eg LATIN-n). I think it should say "must be a single one-byte character" and not try to talk down to the reader. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
