BUG #6254: COPY ... TO .. CSV sometimes doesn't escape strings

Started by Andrew Kerrover 14 years ago2 messagesbugs
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#1Andrew Kerr
andrew.kerr@unrulymedia.com

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 6254
Logged by: Andrew Kerr
Email address: andrew.kerr@unrulymedia.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.0.5
Operating system: CentOS 5.4
Description: COPY ... TO .. CSV sometimes doesn't escape strings
Details:

Query of this form:

copy (select
col1,col2
from mytable)
to 'output.csv' with (format csv, force_quote *);

where some selected columns are text sometimes fails to escape quotes (with
another quote) in text.

On which rows this happens varies with different runs.

Sometimes a field will have some quotes escaped and some not.

Running on a 90 million row table.

#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Andrew Kerr (#1)
Re: BUG #6254: COPY ... TO .. CSV sometimes doesn't escape strings

Andrew Kerr wrote:

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 6254
Logged by: Andrew Kerr
Email address: andrew.kerr@unrulymedia.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.0.5
Operating system: CentOS 5.4
Description: COPY ... TO .. CSV sometimes doesn't escape strings
Details:

Query of this form:

copy (select
col1,col2
from mytable)
to 'output.csv' with (format csv, force_quote *);

where some selected columns are text sometimes fails to escape quotes (with
another quote) in text.

On which rows this happens varies with different runs.

Sometimes a field will have some quotes escaped and some not.

Running on a 90 million row table.

Please show us an example.

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