Re: Postgres automatically inserts chr(13) whenever chr(10) is inserted

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 08:47:00AM +0100, Dragan Matic wrote:
> create table sample(column_sample varchar(500))
>
> insert into sample(column_sample) values('this is first row of text' ||
> chr(10) || 'this is second row of text')
>
> Now, instead of just inserting chr(10), postgres inserts chr(13) +
> chr(10). Is there a way to avoid this? Database is on a linux server
> with SQL_ASCII encoding, clients are winXP communicating thru ODBC.

How did you determine what characters are being inserted? What's
the output of the following example?

INSERT INTO sample VALUES ('a' || chr(10) || 'b');
SELECT length(column_sample), decode(column_sample, 'escape') FROM sample;

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Michael Fuhr