Re: CSVlog vs tabs

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> One issue I notice is that it mangles the log message to add a tab 
> character before each newline. We do this in standard text logs to make 
> them more readable for humans. but the whole point of having CSV logs is 
> to make them machine readable, and I'm rather inclined to think this 
> sort of behaviour is both unnecessary and undesirable.  So I'm intending 
> to leave it out for CSV logs.

Right, the tabs are only there to disambiguate the plain-text format.
        regards, tom lane