Re: Good Delimiter for copy command

From: Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Good Delimiter for copy command
Date: 2009-02-10 19:41:11
Message-ID: 20090210194111.GY3008@frubble.xen.chris-lamb.co.uk
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 07:07:42AM -0800, SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH wrote:
> What is a good delimiter to use for COPY command. Im trying to use
> COPY command to copy data from one table to another in 2 different
> databases.
> Can you suggest a unique delimiter that I can use for this COPY command

If you're fixed with using COPY then what about just using CSV mode?

COPY table TO STDOUT WITH CSV;

If not then why not use pg_dump?

Sam

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