Matthew H. McKenzie

That's because the server cannot know what the client considers an EOL, DOS is CRLF and Unix (android,mac,linux) is just LF. So it is a localisation on the client side....

NB. a z/OS or MVS server does not know a file is text, but will translate it if you use ASCII, otherwise it passes EBCDIC as binary, record by record...

Possibly, but conventions we have had for 30 or 40 years should be preserved. We end up with maintainers breaking Wi-Fi rather than hackers. The directory types above are another...

Now that private endpoints are generally available in Azure especially this becomes more than a nice to have. Not just for Postgres - it is only an example here because...