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 | 1138388709.3074.35.camel@swithin обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Proposal: new pg_dump options --copy-delimiter and (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>) |
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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 13:43 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes: > > 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). > > That line of argument leads to the suggestion that pg_dump should just > use something else (I'd vote for "|"), all the time, in order to produce > more robust dump files. I still don't see the argument for exposing > a switch though. > If we regard them as suitable for human editing for normal use, yes. cheers andrew
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