Re: utf8 COPY DELIMITER?

Mark Dilger wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Mark Dilger wrote:
>>> The \COPY command rejects multibyte delimiters. Is this intentional
>>> behavior?
>>
>> It is certainly a known limitation, and I suspect removing it could
>> add non-trivial overhead to the input processing.
>>
>> What is the use case for using such a delimiter?
>
> I'm working on fixing bugs relating to multibyte character encodings.
> I wasn't sure whether this was a bug or not. I don't think we should
> use the phrasing "COPY delimiter must be a single character" when, in
> utf8 land, I did in fact use a single character. We might say "a
> single byte", or we might extend the functionality to handle multibyte
> characters.
>

Doing the latter would be a feature, and so is of course right off the
table for this release. Changing the error messages to be clearer should
be fine.

cheers

andrew