On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:12:35PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
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> "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > 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.
David Fetter wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:17:05PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I have seed database scripts quasi-generated from pg_dump which
> > > include COPY statements, but the data is hard to edit (especially
> > > cut & paste operations) wh
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:08 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:43 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> That line of argument leads to the suggestion that pg_dump should just
> >> use something else (I'd vote for "|"), all the time, in order to pr
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:43 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> That line of argument leads to the suggestion that pg_dump should just
> >> use something else (I'd vote for "|"), all the time, in order to produce
> >> m
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:43 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> That line of argument leads to the suggestion that pg_dump should just
>> use something else (I'd vote for "|"), all the time, in order to produce
>> more robust dump files. I still don't see the arg
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:43 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I could not disagree more. The invisibility of tabs makes their use as a
> > delimiter wholly evil. I have lost count of the number of corrupted
> > makefiles etc. I have seen because a tab got conve
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I could not disagree more. The invisibility of tabs makes their use as a
> delimiter wholly evil. I have lost count of the number of corrupted
> makefiles etc. I have seen because a tab got converted to a space and it
> was impossible to tell.
> More te
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:12 -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
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> 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
"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.
I think what he's getting at is for things like, say, a contrib packag
Those who don't use it will never see it.
It does however add more maintenance to the code.
Furthermore, it's quite unclear why you'd use pg_dump at all to
generate a data file that you intend to feed to some other program.
In my case, it's about being copy/paste friendly.
Davi
David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:17:05PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Seems to me that "psql -c 'COPY ...'" is a more likely front-end for
>> such a process.
> Actually, it's not. I'm attaching my preliminary patch, as I see I
> haven't explained it well enough.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:17:05PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I have seed database scripts quasi-generated from pg_dump which
> > include COPY statements, but the data is hard to edit (especially
> > cut & paste operations) when the COPY delimiter is some
David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have seed database scripts quasi-generated from pg_dump which
> include COPY statements, but the data is hard to edit (especially cut
> & paste operations) when the COPY delimiter is some non-visible
> character like \t.
This seems like an awfully weak
Folks,
This came up at work...
I have seed database scripts quasi-generated from pg_dump which
include COPY statements, but the data is hard to edit (especially cut
& paste operations) when the COPY delimiter is some non-visible
character like \t. So I thought it would be handy to be able to
con
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