Re: [HACKERS] Cannot dump/restore text value \N

Manfred Koizar wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:31:30 +0200, I wrote:
> >There haven't been too much changes in this area between 7.3 and 7.4.
>
> Here is the patch for 7.3.4 ...
>
> Bruce, I noticed that the original patch submission didn't contain
> anything useful as a cvs log message:
>
> Make COPY FROM a bit more compatible with COPY TO regarding
> backslashes, especially \N.

Oh, good point.  Thanks.

Can someone explain what was broken?  Was it only for non-standard NULL
strings?  Would it silently fail?  I saw your example and it seemed
strange we had not seen a bug report before.

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