Postgres was not compiled with Multibyte, if I replace the if (delimc == c)
with if (strstr(delim,c)) it works as expected. This changes was
implemented for performance reasons according to the CVS log.
At 11:57 PM 2/25/02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@ok-connect.com> writes:
>> When useing COPY FROM 'file' DELIMITER '\254' copyfrom reads past the
>> delimiter and ends up with parse errors when trying to do the insert
>
>Are you perhaps operating in a multibyte encoding in which \254 is
>just the first byte of a multibyte character?
>
>I'm not sure what we do in such a case, and even less sure what we
>should do ... but I am entirely prepared to believe that we don't
>do the Right Thing ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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