maybe we need a keyword DOS|UNIX or perhaps TEXT|BINARY to tell postgresql
to pick DOS style or UNIX style line endings...
krishna
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Blakeley [mailto:mike@blakeley.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 12:57 PM
To: pgsql-general@hub.org
Subject: [GENERAL] Re: newline character handling
> From: "Sampath, Krishna" <KSampath@ekmail.com>
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: newline character handling
> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:49:58 -0400
>
> As I tried, using COPY, to import a few flat files created under Windows
> into postgresql running on a Linux machine, I discovered that:
> * If the last field in your record is a string, postgresql imports it,
but
> keeps the ^M as part of the text string.
> * If the last field is numeric, postgresql refuses to import that line
> (because of the ^M, the field is not recognized as a number)
>
> Once I stripped the ^M, the data bulkloaded without a problem. Perhaps
COPY
> should be smarter and recognize the DOS-style line endings?
I'm ok with this for numerics, but against it for text. Why? Because
I work with some binary data, and I wouldn't want the mysterious
problem of not being able to COPY a line containing a record that's
_supposed_ to end in ^M.
-- Mike