Re: Cannot dump/restore text value \N

From: Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Cannot dump/restore text value \N
Date: 2003-10-06 00:01:04
Message-ID: tta1ovgqlae9bqihd2rrrl923k0hbvj8ch@email.aon.at
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I have solved my restore problem by editing (the relevant part of) the
dump (:%s/^I\\\\N^I/^I\\\\N ^I/), a one-off solution <g>

Anyway, thanks for your investigation.

On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 19:12:50 -0400, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
wrote:
>it seems we have to compare the null representation string to the
>pre-debackslashing input.

Sounds reasonable, IMHO.

> I wonder whether it would break any existing apps though.

Couldn't be worse than silently converting valid non-null values to
NULL ...

Servus
Manfred

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