TEMP_EXTRACT_COLUMN_DELIMITER Option

String

','

Option can be set at the database (PUBLIC) or user level. At the database level, the value becomes the default for any new user, but has no impact on existing users. At the user level, overrides the PUBLIC value for that user only. No system privilege is required to set option for self. System privilege is required to set at database level or at user level for any user other than self.

Requires the SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION system privilege to set this option. Can be set temporary for an individual connection or for the PUBLIC role. Takes effect immediately.

Use TEMP_EXTRACT_COLUMN_DELIMITER to specify the delimiter between columns in the output of the data extraction facility. In the case of an ASCII extraction, the default is to separate column values with commas. Strings are unquoted by default.

The delimiter must occupy 1 – 4 bytes, and must be valid in the collation order you are using, if you are using a multibyte collation order. Choose a delimiter that does not occur in any of the data output strings themselves.

If you set this option to the empty string '' for ASCII extractions, the extracted data is written in fixed-width ASCII with no column delimiter. Numeric and binary data types are right-justified on a field of <n> blanks, where <n> is the maximum number of bytes needed for any value of that type. Character data types are left-justified on a field of <n> blanks.