On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 02:39:39PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 11:27:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> But rather than mess with that newline-chomping code, I'm
> >> inclined to wonder why we're using PG_BINARY_R for input
> >> that we clearly expect to be textual. Most of our other
> >> popen's do not do that.
> >>
> >> Bruce, this seems to date to 98e9775a3 ... don't suppose
> >> you remember that? I see the point about control-Z in text
> >> files, but I wonder how plausible that is for popen cases.
>
> > It seems safe for popen to use TEXT mode, and it might help with
> > encoding conversion. I don't think I made a popen distinction when I
> > was working in this area.
>
> I double-checked, and verified that our only other popen() calls
> that use binary mode are dealing with COPY data. It seems appropriate
> to do so in that case, partly because the data might indeed be binary
> and partly because we have adequate newline recognition logic in copy.c.
> But it does seem best to uniformly use plain "r" or "w" for other
> popen's. So I've fixed this that way.
Thanks.
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