Re: Support UTF-8 files with BOM in COPY FROM

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Support UTF-8 files with BOM in COPY FROM
Date: 2011-09-26 11:12:42
Message-ID: CABUevExwxVivjbyxdv4=R_JQP=POs=BoMgzsrL1OJ3CTMjaVDw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 06:58, Itagaki Takahiro
<itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to support UTF-8 text or csv files that has BOM (byte order mark)
> in COPY FROM command. BOM will be automatically detected and ignored
> if the file encoding is UTF-8. WIP patch attached.
>
> I'm thinking about only COPY FROM for reads, but if someone wants to add
> BOM in COPY TO, we might also support COPY TO WITH BOM for writes.
>
> Comments welcome.

I like it in general. But if we're looking at the BOM, shouldn't we
also look and *reject* the file if it's a BOM for a non-UTF8 file? Say
if the BOM claims it's UTF16?

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 Magnus Hagander
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