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> > How do you feel about displaying nulls as \N, as we do in the COPY
> > output?
>
> And when I put \N in a text field? How do I distinguish? We need some kind
> of escaping system here... like turn '\' into '\\' and then '\N' is unique
> and non-textual. :) Also allows us to output control characters, etc., in a
> manner that is completely parsable.
Yes, \ always outputs as \\, excepts someone changed it last week, and I
am requesting a reversal. Do you like the \N if it is unique?
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