On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:26:00AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:03:00AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Did anyone provide a convincing use case for this? > > > I've had one so far, and it was enough to cause me to make a > > special patched version of pg_dump. To get some idea of how > > drastic that was, consider that I think it's generally bad > > practice to compile from source because it can take you too far > > off the "generally supported software" map. The case I had was > > making a database with a schema and initial data whose dump output > > gets checked into a source code management system. > > So? Don't tell me your SCMS can't handle tabs.
Not everybody's editor/mailer/whatever does this right, and it makes things fragile. Another way to do this is to change the delimter to a printable character like '|', but that raises hackles, too. Cheers, D -- David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
