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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 16:01:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert.Patrick@cs.cmu.edu
To: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Text string w/ a '\n' character???
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We are developing an application which uses Postgres to store it's data.
 The problem is that I need to be able to store text strings with
carriage return characters in them.

First, I tried just passing the raw '\n' character embedded in the
string to libpq.  This causes me to receive a "scanner error"(something
about unterminated char or string) and nothing is stored in the text
field.  Next, I tried inserting a '\' before the '\n' (since this
appears to work properly if done from the monitor).  However, when
executed via libpq, Postgres just drops the carriage return entirely! 
So I figured it was just a problem with the text data type and converted
everything to octal and tried to store it as a bytea data type. 
Unfortunately, Postgres seems to treat the bytea data type exactly like
text (at least in this respect).

Is it possible to store a piece of text in Postgres without losing the
formatting (i.e., carriage returns)?

Robert

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