Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Good Delimiter for copy command

2009-02-17 Thread Tom Lane
David Fetter writes: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:17:40PM +0100, Marco Colombo wrote: >> Is it possibile to use some unicode character which is unlikely to >> appear in the data set as delimiter? Something like U+FFFC. > No. The delimiter needs to be one byte long at the moment. The error > mes

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Good Delimiter for copy command

2009-02-17 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:17:40PM +0100, Marco Colombo wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Andrew Gould writes: > >> To the list: Does pg_dump escape characters that are the same as the > >> delimiter? > > > > Yes. The OP has not actually explained why he needs to pick a > > nondefault delimiter, unl