Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lee Kindness wrote: > >> To be honest this idea strikes me as overkill - over > >> engineering. > >> > > I agree. My modest proposal for handling CSVs would be to extend the > > DELIMITER parameter to allow up to 3 characters - separator, quote and > > escape. Escape would default to the quote char and the quote char would > > default to unspecified. > > I could go with that too. The question here is do we have any popular > use-cases that aren't solved by that extension, but could be solved by > simple user-level data formatting functions? I'm not real eager to add > such a feature as an "if we build it they will come" speculation, but > if anyone can point to solid use-cases besides handling CSV, then it > probably is worth doing.
The thing I liked about Andrew's idea is that it even covers escape quoting for CVS, which might change from implementation to implentation, and it is flexible without requiring C coding. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
