Re: COPY formatting

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:54:37AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz> writes:
> >  The problem with  CSV is that it will correctly  work with new protocol
> >  only. Because old  versions of  clients are newline  sensitive.
> 
> Why?  The client-side code doesn't have any real say over the meaning of
> the data, at least not in psql-class clients.  I suppose a client app
> that tries to interpret the data could get confused, but psql sure
> doesn't do that.
libpq, fe-protocol2.c, pqGetCopyData2() and pqGetline2() cut stringbehind '\n'.
   Karel

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