Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Perhaps we can throw a warning rather than an error, and adjust initdb
> to be consistent.
I like the idea of reducing the newline consistency check to a warning.
There is one thing we'd have to watch for though (it's already an issue
but would become a bigger one): client-side COPY code had better be
prepared to absorb backend Notice messages while processing COPY IN.
Currently libpq doesn't read input data at all during a COPY IN loop,
which means that if the COPY generates more than a few K of warning
messages, the backend gets blocked on a full pipe and the whole
operation locks up. I have been meaning to fix that in libpq anyway,
but what other client libraries might have the same issue? Anyone know
whether JDBC would need a similar fix?
regards, tom lane