In article <15618.1013463240@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>(2) On Unix machines, "text mode" I/O does not do anything different
>from binary mode anyway. Our problem is with pg_dump data that has
>temporarily left the Unix world and been munged in transit. We want
>to be able to deal with that whether or not the local libc has ever
>heard of \r\n newlines.
Are there many (any?) complaints about a similar problem when a file is
created/modified on a Mac system with it's own EOL characteristics?
mrc
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