Re: Idea for making COPY data Microsoft-proof

At 11:11 AM 2/11/02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>This strikes me as solving an entirely different issue

Well, a related issue: you are talking about (slightly) changing the
encoding of dumped data - why not therefor allow for an (optional) header
with full encoding details. Column headers are just a minor bonus.

>- with great
>loss of backwards compatibility.

Not if anything without the 'WITH HEADERS' is treated as per current.
Anyone having M$ problems can use the new format (and pg_dump could use it
always).

>the moment I'd like to keep this thread focused on the issue of coping
>with newline translations.

No big deal, but this seems to be an encoding issue; and it seems like a
good idea to formalize it somehow.

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