Hi Bruce,

> Function and comments are just _strings_ to PostgreSQL, so we have no
> good way of cleaning the output up, unless we hack pg_dump to somehow
> change line endings when outputting such information, though
> currently we
> don't. The would perhaps cause problems in viewing the functions if
> restored in Win32.
>
Agreed.

> Fixing it at the \i level is too crude because it might remove
> carriage
> returns that are wanted in the input stream.
>
Agreed.

> We are open to ideas on how to improve this.
>
What about another option to pg_dump to indicate such a thing? Maybe -l
or --change-line [m|w|u]

Another TODO item?


Euler Taveira de Oliveira
euler[at]yahoo_com_br

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