[MonetDB-users] Problems with COPY INTO and CHAR(N) columns containing empty strings or all spaces

We've had problems with MonetDB SR5 using COPY INTO with data that may be the empty string or all spaces. We've been able to work around this by surrounding all of the values in our copy files with "quotes" (I read tablet.c to try and diagnose the issue and found that as a workaround). I'm not familiar enough with the source and build process yet to submit a patch. We are using '\t' as the separator and the fields that we've had problem with are CHAR(2) or CHAR(16) if that matters. -bob