On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 01:20:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Given how long we've had COPY CSV support, and the tiny number of > complaints to date, I do not think it's something to panic over. > Disallowing the functionality altogether is surely an overreaction. > > A documentation warning might be the appropriate response. I don't > see any plausible way for psql to actually fix the problem, short > of a protocol change to allow the backend to tell it how the data > stream is going to be parsed.
Yes, agreed. I looked at this problem a couple of months (year(s)?) ago and gave up on designing a clear portable solution after a couple of hours over it, and that's quite a corner case. -- Michael
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