Re: CSV mode option for pg_dump

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> Something someone said on IRC just now triggered a little memory ... I
> think we should provide an option to have pg_dump work in CSV mode
> rather than text mode. This probably doesn't have much importance in the
> case of text dumps, but in custom or tar dumps where you might want to
> get at individual data members, having an option for CSVs that you want
> to load into some other product might be nice.
>
> This should be a pretty low cost item, I expect (good newbie project?)

Uhh... just about any application that can import CSV can import our
dumps. It just tell it the delimiter is a tab.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> thoughts?
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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