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Re: csv format for psql

Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>

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From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-11-26T04:36:19Z
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

 Tom> Or we could kill both issues by hard-wiring the separator as ','.

Using ';' for the delimiter isn't all that rare.

But I don't see any reason to allow multibyte or non-ascii characters or
arbitrary strings.

-- 
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

Commits

  1. Add CSV table output mode in psql.

  2. Reorganize format options of psql in alphabetical order

  3. Complete TODO item: