On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Perhaps we can throw a warning rather than an error, and adjust initdb
> > to be consistent.
>
> I like the idea of reducing the newline consistency check to a warning.
> There is one thing we'd have to watch for though (it's already an issue
> but would become a bigger one): client-side COPY code had better be
> prepared to absorb backend Notice messages while processing COPY IN.
> Currently libpq doesn't read input data at all during a COPY IN loop,
> which means that if the COPY generates more than a few K of warning
> messages, the backend gets blocked on a full pipe and the whole
> operation locks up.  I have been meaning to fix that in libpq anyway,
> but what other client libraries might have the same issue?  Anyone know
> whether JDBC would need a similar fix?
>

JDBC does not support the COPY protocol at the moment.

Kris Jurka


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