Add a note about CSV lines with trailing spaces.

Suggestion by Darcy Buskermolen, reworded by me.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
index 188f892fa0f495a42caaf327fd51a667b7999f00..34f1b496ebf0425d3e9fafc68d4c3f4c776f488f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
@@ -511,6 +511,19 @@ COPY tablename [ ( 
     comparisons for specific columns.
    
 
+   
+   
+    In CSV mode, all characters are significant. A quoted value 
+    surrounded by white space, or any characters other than 
+    DELIMITER, will include those characters. This can cause 
+    errors if  you import data from a system that pads CSV 
+    lines with white space out to some fixed width. If such a situation 
+    arises you might need to preprocess the CSV file to remove 
+    the trailing white space, before importing the data into 
+    PostgreSQL. 
+   
+   
+
    
     
      CSV mode will both recognize and produce CSV files with quoted