Github user gabrielreid commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/phoenix/pull/82#issuecomment-98099314
I'm not really in favor of this change, as it would break the default
working of the loader, and because it actually *is* possible to specify a tab
(or other escape-based character) as the separator, although the way of doing
this is not well known.
You can supply a tab character on the command line in the current loader in
two ways:
1. after typing the "-d" and a leading single quote, type Ctrl+v and then
hit the tab button, and a closing single quote. This provides a tab literal on
the command line
2. enter the -d parameter as -d $'\t'
This general issue (and both of these solutions) are not Phoenix-specific,
they're just the way in which you provide escape character values on the
command line.
I'm going to update the documentation on
http://phoenix.apache.org/bulk_dataload.html to include this information.
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