Good point. The number of CSV options would be hard to support for pg_dump. Any thoughts from anyone on how to do that cleanly? Could we just support the default behavior?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Lane wrote: > "Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I wish I could understand why people are so keen to make other people turn > > handsprings in order to avoid a feature which, as Bruce points out, is > > already on the TODO list, and which, by my 10 minute analysis, would involve > > almost trivial code impact and risk. If this involved major impact I might > > understand, but it really doesn't. > > Supporting all of the CSV options in pg_dump would involve major bloat > in its option set, and it already has far too many options. If it were > just a matter of adding a "--csv" switch I wouldn't be complaining, but > there are half a dozen more sub-options, and it seems like every time we > turn around someone is finding a reason for another one. Propagating > all that cruft through pg_dump would be a PITA, and updating it to track > future additions would be too. > > Furthermore, the entire rationale for the feature is predicated on the > claim that programs other than pg_restore might find it useful. But > this conveniently ignores the fact that if there are any such programs > in existence, what this will really do is BREAK them, because they won't > be able to cope with all the variants that pass for CSV. > > My opinions would be less negative if I thought that CSV were a > well-defined format that would never change. I don't believe that it > has either property, however, and so I'm against letting it get into our > dump file format. I think we'll just live to regret it if we do. > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to > choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not > match > -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
