On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:43 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I could not disagree more. The invisibility of tabs makes their use as a > > delimiter wholly evil. I have lost count of the number of corrupted > > makefiles etc. I have seen because a tab got converted to a space and it > > was impossible to tell. > > > More tears have been shed over tabs used than tabs unused. (Apologies to > > St Theresa). > > That line of argument leads to the suggestion that pg_dump should just > use something else (I'd vote for "|"), all the time, in order to produce > more robust dump files. I still don't see the argument for exposing > a switch though. >
If we regard them as suitable for human editing for normal use, yes. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
