Re: Proposal: new pg_dump options --copy-delimiter and
От | Andrew Dunstan |
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Тема | Re: Proposal: new pg_dump options --copy-delimiter and |
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Msg-id | 1138386142.3074.31.camel@swithin обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Proposal: new pg_dump options --copy-delimiter and (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>) |
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Re: Proposal: new pg_dump options --copy-delimiter and
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Список | pgsql-hackers |
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:12 -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > Personally I find anything that would encourage people to use anything other > than tabs evil anyways. All those people who think | is somehow a reasonable > choice or want to use commas and then get all confused trying to escape them > and invent ever more confused syntaxes for escaping the escape characters. > Just use tab separated data like man was meant to. > I could not disagree more. The invisibility of tabs makes their use as a delimiter wholly evil. I have lost count of the number of corrupted makefiles etc. I have seen because a tab got converted to a space and it was impossible to tell. More tears have been shed over tabs used than tabs unused. (Apologies to St Theresa). We now return you to normal -hacking. cheers andrew
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