John Gage wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
> >
> > Tends to get added if you go through a Windows system. Useless for
> > utf-8 afaik. Confuse the hell out of you because various tools parse
> > and hide them then you pipe the file to a script and everything
> > falls o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
Tends to get added if you go through a Windows system. Useless for
utf-8 afaik. Confuse the hell out of you because various tools parse
and hide them then you pipe the file to a script and everything
falls over.
Bunch of scripts available here
On 22/04/10 08:24, John Gage wrote:
Yeesh. What the ding-dong is this?
JohnGage:EFNWebsite johngage$ od -a CopySql.sql
000 ? ? ? s e l e c t sp * sp f r o m
020 sp m e s h _ d e s c r i p t o r
040 s ; nl nl
What are the ?'s. Mon Dieu, what is going on?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
Oh, I should add. Everything, the database, vim, is UTF-8.
On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:34 AM, Scott Mead wrote:
run:
od -a CopySql.sql
Look at the beginning, that'll show you character by character
what's in there (should reveal anything hidden).
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Yeesh. What the ding-dong is this?
JohnGage:EFNWebsite johngage$ od -a CopySql.sql
000? ? ? s e l e c t sp * sp f r o m
020 sp m e s h _ d e s c r i p t o r
040s ; nl nl
What are the ?'s. Mon Dieu, what is goin
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:07 PM, John Gage wrote:
> I enter the identical command:
>
> select * from mesh_descriptors;
>
> using the psql command line and it works perfectly.
>
> The same command in a file produces an immediate syntax error:
>
> EFNWeb=# \i ./CopySql.sql
> psql:./CopySql.sql:1: E
I enter the identical command:
select * from mesh_descriptors;
using the psql command line and it works perfectly.
The same command in a file produces an immediate syntax error:
EFNWeb=# \i ./CopySql.sql
psql:./CopySql.sql:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near "select"
LINE 1: select * from mes
