From: Ludwig Lim <lud_nowhere_man@yahoo.com>
To: Luke Pascoe <luke.p@kmg.co.nz>
Cc: PostgreSQL Mailing List <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Inserting a tab character
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 23:59:14 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20030205075914.79433.qmail@web80303.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00d301c2ccc8$24c6f7a0$3200000a@K2>
--- Luke Pascoe <luke.p@kmg.co.nz> wrote:
> I have a table which defines various possible file
> delimiters (CHAR(1) NOT
> NULL), for the moment it'll only contain comma and
> tab. Inserting a comma is
> easy, but inserting a tab is proving somewhat more
> difficult.
>
> How do I do it in 'psql'?
>
--> Try using '\t' for tab.
Example :
INSERT INTO table1(f1) values ('\t');
I'm not sure if inserting a TAB character will
cause some side-effects for commands like COPY FROM /
TO since these commands use tab to delimit fields.
Hope that helps,
ludwig
Hope that helps,
ludwig.
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