On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:12:35PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > David I don't get this... what are you copying from/to that would > > wouldn't just script? If you throw into a script you can change > > the delimiter on the fly using translation. > > The problems are a) there's no guarantee the data is safe to put through your > hypothetical tab-destroying copy/paste anyways. There could be tabs or other > unsafe characters in the data. b) We have no way of knowing which characters > are or aren't safe in your hypothetical copy/paste system. Why is tab unsafe > in the first place? > > Personally I find anything that would encourage people to use anything other > than tabs evil anyways. All those people who think | is somehow a reasonable > choice or want to use commas and then get all confused trying to escape them > and invent ever more confused syntaxes for escaping the escape characters. > Just use tab separated data like man was meant to.
I'd say that the multiplicity of strong opinions on The Right Delimiter is a pretty strong argument for having a switch to control it. Cheers, D -- David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
