Darcy Buskermolen <darcy(at)ok-connect(dot)com> writes:
> When useing COPY FROM 'file' DELIMITER '\254' copyfrom reads past the
> delimiter and ends up with parse errors when trying to do the insert
Are you perhaps operating in a multibyte encoding in which \254 is
just the first byte of a multibyte character?
I'm not sure what we do in such a case, and even less sure what we
should do ... but I am entirely prepared to believe that we don't
do the Right Thing ...
regards, tom lane