On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 09:22:16AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> [000120 09:10] wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 11:02:31AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >
> > > It sure sounds like psql is failing to recognize the trailing \.
> > > of the COPY data.
> >
> > Precisely what I saw yesterday (cf Subject: pg_dump disaster) - but what
> > does one do about it?
>
> Is this with a recent snapshot or 6.5.3 using libpq?
For me, it's using yesterday's cvs'd source - but I obviously can't speak
for Oliver.
> Either way, you should check the contents of the send buffer, please let
> me know if there is data queued in it. You can include the 'internal'
> header for libpq (libpq-int.h?) to get at the send buffer.
That will take a while. In the meantime, just pg_dumpall something and try
to read the output back in. I do have ^M's in some of the text columns if
that matters.
Cheers,
Patrick