Bruce Momjian wrote: > I thought about that, but adding additional escape letters isn't our > problem --- it is the escape mechanism itself that is the issue.
In a random-encoding environment, the option to specify byte values directly -- at any level -- is of limited value anyway and is a potential source of errors. So let's stay away from that. I did not find the original posts that your quotations came from, but it has to be considered that COPY is also subject to encoding processing. Overall, I find this proposal to be a dangerous option. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly