Re: CSVlog vs tabs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CSVlog vs tabs
Date: 2007-06-16 03:10:41
Message-ID: 28472.1181963441@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> One issue I notice is that it mangles the log message to add a tab
> character before each newline. We do this in standard text logs to make
> them more readable for humans. but the whole point of having CSV logs is
> to make them machine readable, and I'm rather inclined to think this
> sort of behaviour is both unnecessary and undesirable. So I'm intending
> to leave it out for CSV logs.

Right, the tabs are only there to disambiguate the plain-text format.

regards, tom lane

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