Can I see an example of such a failure line? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > Darcy Buskermolen has drawn my attention to unfortunate behaviour of > COPY CSV with fields containing embedded line end chars if the embedded > sequence isn't the same as those of the file containing the CSV data. In > that case we error out when reading the data in. This means there are > cases where we can produce a CSV data file which we can't read in, which > is not at all pleasant. > > Possible approaches to the problem: > . make it a documented limitation > . have a "csv read" mode for backend/commands/copy.c:CopyReadLine() that > relaxes some of the restrictions on inconsistent line endings > . escape embedded line end chars > > The last really isn't an option, because the whole point of CSVs is to > play with other programs, and my understanding is that those that > understand multiline fields (e.g. Excel) expect them not to be escaped, > and do not produce them escaped. > > So right now I'm tossing up in my head between the first two options. Or > maybe there's another solution I haven't thought of. > > Thoughts? > > cheers > > andrew > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- 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 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
