Re: psql reading from stdin

Sure enough, COPY FROM stdin does work if the CRNL pairs are replaced with
NLs.  This is true for \i dumpfile and -f dumpfile.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: "Eric Rosenquist" <rosenquist@mail.utexas.edu>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] psql reading from stdin


>
>
> Eric Rosenquist wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >I was trying to populate the database in Windows by doing psql -f
dumpfile.
> >It creates the tables just fine and executes the SET commands in the
file,
> >but it ignores all the data given as COPY xxxx (xxx,xxx,xxx) FROM stdin;
> >commands.
> >
> >\i dumpfile at the psql prompt also doesn't work.
> >
> >To work around this, the dump file can be generated with pg_dump -D,
meaning
> >store the data as INSERT commands rather than COPY.  But something is
> >apparently wrong with the stdin of psql in Windows.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> This is probably the problem that we patched a couple of days ago.
> Please see if converting the dump file to have unix line endings (NL
> instead of CRNL) makes any difference. Alternatively, if you can compile
> yourself, try with cvs tip.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>