Re: utf8 COPY DELIMITER?

Mark Dilger wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Mark Dilger wrote:
>>> The \COPY command rejects multibyte delimiters.  Is this intentional 
>>> behavior?
>>
>> It is certainly a known limitation, and I suspect removing it could 
>> add non-trivial overhead to the input processing.
>>
>> What is the use case for using such a delimiter?
>
> I'm working on fixing bugs relating to multibyte character encodings.  
> I  wasn't sure whether this was a bug or not.  I don't think we should 
> use the phrasing "COPY delimiter must be a single character" when, in 
> utf8 land, I did in fact use a single character.  We might say "a 
> single byte", or we might extend the functionality to handle multibyte 
> characters.
>

Doing the latter would be a feature, and so is of course right off the 
table for this release. Changing the error messages to be clearer should 
be fine.

cheers

andrew