--On Tuesday, August 05, 2003 16:41:34 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:I remember dealing with \n's, and don't recall if \t is a problem as well--On Tuesday, August 05, 2003 16:27:55 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>A variant (which'd be okay with me) is to separate these fields with tabs instead of spaces; then the rule for DBAs would be "don't allow tabs in db/user names".
Tabs cause issues in syslog output if I remember correctly.
Really? What kind of issues? We're already quite likely to be sticking tabs into the log output, e.g. if log_statement is turned on.
in SCO's syslogd. I'll play tonite, and see what it does/doesn't deal with.
LER
regards, tom lane
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