At 09:47 AM 8/11/2005, Richard Huxton wrote:
Steve Peterson wrote:
Running COPY FROM on a Windows server; using a Windows-format fully
qualified path with backslashes results in the backslashes being interpreted
as escapes.

Did you escape the backslashes: C:\\Windows\\Path ?

Nope. I used a standard Windows path, copied from the address field in Windows explorer.

I see now on http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-CONSTANTS (I know, RTFM) that it's documented that the SQL string literal is extended to accept backslash as an escape, so this is a documented behavior. Can I convert this bug into a docs bug -- to mention the escaping process wherever a filename is specified in a SQL string constant?

S


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