"A. Van Hook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dump files are used to restore and test. This test method has been used > successfully on > all previous versions. However, in 7.3.3, when the dump utility hits a > carriage return imbeded with in a text field, the > dump utility immeadiately jumps to the next record rendering the dump of > successive records useless.
AFAICT, pg_dump with -D in 7.3 and current dumps embedded carriage returns and newlines literally, same as it always has. I suspect your problems are not actually with Postgres, but with some other tool that is misreading or altering the dump file. Personally, I would use pg_dump without -D. Recent versions give a fairly nice behavior for embedded control characters: COPY foo (f1) FROM stdin; aaa\rbbb\r\nccc aaa\rbbb\r\nccc \. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])