[GENERAL] Carriage return in text fields

2005-05-30 Thread Ets ROLLAND
Hello !   I have to transfert data from MS-Access to PostgreSQL 8.03 under Windows 2003 server. Text fields may contain a carriage return (CR-LF). I use the copy instruction. Under Pg-Admin III 1.21, I obtain an error message for that carriage return and a hint : use \n. If I use a filter on

Re: [GENERAL] Carriage return in text fields

2005-05-30 Thread Keary Suska
on 5/30/05 2:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said: > I have to transfert data from MS-Access to PostgreSQL 8.03 under Windows 2003 > server. > Text fields may contain a carriage return (CR-LF). > I use the copy instruction. > Under Pg-Admin III 1.21, I obtain an error message for that carriag

Re: [GENERAL] Carriage return in text fields

2005-05-30 Thread Ian Harding
In my experience, there is no way to tell an embedded carriage return from and end-of-record carriage return other than counting intervening tabs. What I do, is fix it in access with a query for (believe it or not) "*" & chr(13) & "*" which returns all records that contain a CR. I then just del