On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 01:20:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Given how long we've had COPY CSV support, and the tiny number of
> complaints to date, I do not think it's something to panic over.
> Disallowing the functionality altogether is surely an overreaction.
>
> A documentation warning might be the appropriate response. I don't
> see any plausible way for psql to actually fix the problem, short
> of a protocol change to allow the backend to tell it how the data
> stream is going to be parsed.
Yes, agreed. I looked at this problem a couple of months (year(s)?)
ago and gave up on designing a clear portable solution after a couple
of hours over it, and that's quite a corner case.
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Michael