Commit 2739e1d1 authored by Andrew Dunstan's avatar Andrew Dunstan

Add a note about CSV lines with trailing spaces.

Suggestion by Darcy Buskermolen, reworded by me.
parent 656fe39b
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......@@ -511,6 +511,19 @@ COPY <replaceable class="parameter">tablename</replaceable> [ ( <replaceable cla
comparisons for specific columns.
</para>
<note>
<para>
In <literal>CSV</> mode, all characters are significant. A quoted value
surrounded by white space, or any characters other than
<literal>DELIMITER</>, will include those characters. This can cause
errors if you import data from a system that pads <literal>CSV</>
lines with white space out to some fixed width. If such a situation
arises you might need to preprocess the <literal>CSV</> file to remove
the trailing white space, before importing the data into
<productname>PostgreSQL</>.
</para>
</note>
<note>
<para>
CSV mode will both recognize and produce CSV files with quoted
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