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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: Robert.Patrick@cs.cmu.edu
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Text string w/ a '\n' character???
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 94 13:56:49 -0700
Message-ID: <199409212056.NAA07485@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MiTnyRq00hMd4Xy0sW@cs.cmu.edu>

Robert.Patrick@cs.cmu.edu writes:
> Is it possible to store a piece of text in Postgres without losing the
> formatting (i.e., carriage returns)?

i couldn't quite tell if you had already tried this, but:

heliotrope:postgres (22)> cat foo.c
main()
{
  (void) PQsetdb("mumble");
  (void) PQexec("create foo (x=text)");
  (void) PQexec("append foo (x=\"new\\nline\")");
  (void) PQfinish();
}
heliotrope:postgres (23)> cc foo.c /private/devel/postgres/lib/libpq.a
heliotrope:postgres (24)> createdb mumble
heliotrope:postgres (25)> a.out
heliotrope:postgres (26)> monitor -c 'retrieve (foo.all)' mumble
---------------
| x           |
---------------
| new
line    |
---------------
heliotrope:postgres (27)> 

--
  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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