Re: proposal - support tsv output format for psql

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
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> st 23. 12. 2020 v 16:24 odesílatel Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> napsal:
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>     Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>     > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 07:18:24AM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>     >> Implementation of tsv format should not be hard.
>     >> What do you think about this?
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>     > How would you handle tabs in the data?
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>     The main problem with csv is the severe lack of standardization
>     around what to do with corner cases (delimiters in data, empty
>     fields, etc).  Seems like "tsv" would be even worse.  Is there
>     an actual standard anywhere?
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> Probably not - there are just common conventions.
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> standard disallows tab chars inside
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> https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/tab-separated-values

Is it too awkward to throw an error if there is a tab?

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