Re: COPY WITH CSV FORCE QUOTE *

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Andrew,
>
>> AFAICT on a brief look at the patch, it doesn't affect the quoting of
>> nulls on export, it just allows * as an alias for all columns for FORCE
>> QUOTE (as well as FORCE NOT NULL). But FORCE QUOTE has never forced
>> quoting of null values, only non-null values. We have never quoted null
>> values, and I'm fairly resistant to any suggestion that we should.
>
> See?  That's what happens when I can't build the docs.  ;-)  (and 
> there's no previous discussion of the feature).
>
>>
>> As for importing data from programs that produce all values in quotes
>> including null/missing values (your pro case above), arguably what we
>> need is another flag that would turn an empty string into a null.
>
> ooooh, TODO, please?  There's a lot of this out there, and I've had to 
> build sed into a lot of import routines.
>
+1 For that on the TODO, happens all the time...