Tom Lane wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > > About the ReportSyntaxErrorPosition thing, it was considered at the > > time (can't find the email right now) that control characters would be > > problematic but it wouldn't break anything that wasn't broken already. > > How tab was missed I don't know, nor a couple of other failures cases > > I've thought of since. Thanks for fixing that. > > What I was thinking of doing was making it translate any control > character (other than \r and \n) to a space, not only tab. However > this should probably wait on the result of the discussion about whether > we really like the \x09 output for tabs in data ... that might yield an > idea that could be applied here too.
Perhaps we should just output "\009" for tab and "\xxx" for other control characters. That seems the most natural. I can't see why we would convert every control character to " ". -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (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 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
