David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have seed database scripts quasi-generated from pg_dump which > include COPY statements, but the data is hard to edit (especially cut > & paste operations) when the COPY delimiter is some non-visible > character like \t.
This seems like an awfully weak use-case for adding to pg_dump's already overly complicated feature set. The difficulty of parsing COPY output is not simplified by making the delimiter variable --- more likely the reverse. Furthermore, it's quite unclear why you'd use pg_dump at all to generate a data file that you intend to feed to some other program. Seems to me that "psql -c 'COPY ...'" is a more likely front-end for such a process. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org