Re: pgsql 7.4.1 copy - end-of-copy marker corrupt

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 22:52, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:11:24AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Jenny Zhang <jenny@osdl.org> writes:
> > >  ERROR:  end-of-copy marker corrupt
> > > CONTEXT:  COPY author, line 49: "49\aoD{\BABABABABARENG
> > > \t5p.\19840426"
> >
> > > and this is the line in the data file it complains:
> > > ===
> > > 49\aoD{\BABABABABARENG
> > > \t5p.\19840426\.XfqWM+Ke,8+Ae-9PWPn)}#6eVa_Qu ...
> >                 ^^
> >
> > It doesn't like the "\.", with good reason I should think.  Are you sure
> > 7.3 would take this file?
> >
> > Anyway, either double or remove that backslash, depending on what you
> > want.
>
> Umm, the copy is using the escape character as column seperator. I wonder if
> we should catch and warn for that.
>
> I don't think there is a sensible way that can actually work.

Using \ as delimiter is a bad choice.  But it did work under 7.3.3.
It would be nice to have an error message for it.

Thanks,
Jenny