"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tuesday, June 2, 2015, John Bell <jzb@ornl.gov> wrote:
>> Due to some level of ignorance at install-time, our "psql" clients on two
>> different production computers appear to have different values for /null/:
> You can decide what to have null output as using pset variables. See the
> documentation. The default could have changed between versions, maybe...
No, I don't think so --- but possibly one machine has a setting in
~/.psqlrc that the other doesn't.
>> At the same time, one of these computers reports the number of rows
>> read-in with
>> a "\copy TABLE FROM FILE" command as "COPY 123", while the other computer
>> does not.
> Pretty sure the copy behavior is always on but version dependent.
Yeah, psql 9.4 started doing that.
regards, tom lane