Re: csv format for psql

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
wrote:

>         I wrote:
>
> > recordsep in the unaligned mode doesn't play the role of a line ending
> > because the last line is not finished by recordsep. According to the
> source
> >code, this is intended, see print_unaligned_text() in print.c:
>
> Something else comes to mind: CSV allows linefeeds inside fields, and
> we don't want to replace these with record separators.
> So the notion that recordsep can be used to choose line endings
> is even less okay than if there was just the last line issue.
>
>
I'm not following - if recordsep is not something that would interpreted as
a newline then the file we output would have not structural newlines.  It
might have data newlines but those would be quoted.

David J.