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From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
To: Robert.Patrick@cs.cmu.edu
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Subject: Re: Text string w/ a '\n' character??? 
Reply-To: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 20 Sep 1994 16:01:33 -0400 (EDT) 
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 94 13:56:49 -0700
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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)> 

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  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
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