From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pgbench - allow to store select results into variables
To: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>,
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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 08:35:49 -0400
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On 08/14/2018 07:37 AM, Andrew Gierth wrote:
>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>   >>> This patch contains CRLF line endings
>   >>
>   >> Alas, not according to "file" nor "hexdump" (only 0A, no 0D) on my
>   >> local version, AFAICS.
>   >>
>   >> What happens on the path and what is done by mail clients depending
>   >> on the mime type is another question (eg text/x-diff or text/plain).
>
>   Andrew> It's not done by my MUA, and it's present in your latest posted
>   Andrew> patch. If anything I'd suspect your MUA:
>
> The patch in the original email is in text/plain with base64 transfer
> encoding, which means that CRLF line endings are mandatory. It's
> actually up to the receiving MUA (or the archives webserver) to undo
> that.
>
> If the archives webserver isn't handling that then it's a bug there.
>


Probably a good reason not to use text/plain for patches, ISTM. I do 
note that my MUA (Thunderbird) uses text/x-patch and probably violates 
RFC2046 4.1.1

cheers

andrew

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