diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8b09cc15..a5b5472b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -260,6 +260,8 @@
               <exclude>src/test/resources/org/apache/commons/csv/CSV-259/sample.txt</exclude>
               <exclude>src/test/resources/org/apache/commons/csv/CSVFileParser/testCSV246.csv</exclude>
               <exclude>src/test/resources/org/apache/commons/csv/CSVFileParser/testCSV246_checkWithNoComment.txt</exclude>
+              <exclude>src/test/resources/org/apache/commons/csv/CSV-290/psql.csv</exclude>
+              <exclude>src/test/resources/org/apache/commons/csv/CSV-290/psql.tsv</exclude>
             </excludes>
           </configuration>
         </plugin>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/CSVFormat.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/CSVFormat.java
index 2d44c11b..80ea755b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/CSVFormat.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/CSVFormat.java
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ public final class CSVFormat implements Serializable {
      *
      * <p>
      * This is a comma-delimited format with a LF character as the line separator. Values are double quoted and special
-     * characters are escaped with {@code '"'}. The default NULL string is {@code ""}.
+     * characters are not escaped. The default NULL string is {@code ""}.
      * </p>
      *
      * <p>
@@ -1053,7 +1053,7 @@ public final class CSVFormat implements Serializable {
      * </p>
      * <ul>
      * <li>{@code setDelimiter(',')}</li>
-     * <li>{@code setEscape('"')}</li>
+     * <li>{@code setEscape(null)}</li>
      * <li>{@code setIgnoreEmptyLines(false)}</li>
      * <li>{@code setQuote('"')}</li>
      * <li>{@code setRecordSeparator('\n')}</li>
@@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ public final class CSVFormat implements Serializable {
     // @formatter:off
     public static final CSVFormat POSTGRESQL_CSV = DEFAULT.builder()
             .setDelimiter(COMMA)
-            .setEscape(DOUBLE_QUOTE_CHAR)
+            .setEscape(null)
             .setIgnoreEmptyLines(false)
             .setQuote(DOUBLE_QUOTE_CHAR)
             .setRecordSeparator(LF)
@@ -1082,8 +1082,8 @@ public final class CSVFormat implements Serializable {
      * Default PostgreSQL text format used by the {@code COPY} operation.
      *
      * <p>
-     * This is a tab-delimited format with a LF character as the line separator. Values are double quoted and special
-     * characters are escaped with {@code '"'}. The default NULL string is {@code "\\N"}.
+     * This is a tab-delimited format with a LF character as the line separator. Values are not quoted and special
+     * characters are escaped with {@code '\\'}. The default NULL string is {@code "\\N"}.
      * </p>
      *
      * <p>
@@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ public final class CSVFormat implements Serializable {
      * <li>{@code setDelimiter('\t')}</li>
      * <li>{@code setEscape('\\')}</li>
      * <li>{@code setIgnoreEmptyLines(false)}</li>
-     * <li>{@code setQuote('"')}</li>
+     * <li>{@code setQuote(null)}</li>
      * <li>{@code setRecordSeparator('\n')}</li>
      * <li>{@code setNullString("\\N")}</li>
      * <li>{@code setQuoteMode(QuoteMode.ALL_NON_NULL)}</li>
@@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ public final class CSVFormat implements Serializable {
             .setDelimiter(TAB)
             .setEscape(BACKSLASH)
             .setIgnoreEmptyLines(false)
-            .setQuote(DOUBLE_QUOTE_CHAR)
+            .setQuote(null)
             .setRecordSeparator(LF)
             .setNullString("\\N")
             .setQuoteMode(QuoteMode.ALL_NON_NULL)
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/csv/CSVFormatTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/csv/CSVFormatTest.java
index 0be97745..cca74d65 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/csv/CSVFormatTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/csv/CSVFormatTest.java
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ public class CSVFormatTest {
         assertFalse(csvFormat.getTrailingDelimiter());
         assertFalse(csvFormat.getTrim());
 
-        assertTrue(csvFormat.isQuoteCharacterSet());
+        assertFalse(csvFormat.isQuoteCharacterSet());
         assertEquals("\\N", csvFormat.getNullString());
 
         assertFalse(csvFormat.getIgnoreHeaderCase());
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ public class CSVFormatTest {
         assertEquals("\n", csvFormat.getRecordSeparator());
         assertFalse(csvFormat.getIgnoreEmptyLines());
 
-        assertEquals('\"', (char)csvFormat.getQuoteCharacter());
+        assertNull(csvFormat.getQuoteCharacter());
         assertTrue(csvFormat.isNullStringSet());
 
         assertEquals('\\', (char)csvFormat.getEscapeCharacter());
@@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ public class CSVFormatTest {
         assertFalse(csvFormat.getTrailingDelimiter());
         assertFalse(csvFormat.getTrim());
 
-        assertTrue(csvFormat.isQuoteCharacterSet());
+        assertFalse(csvFormat.isQuoteCharacterSet());
         assertEquals("\\N", csvFormat.getNullString());
 
         assertFalse(csvFormat.getIgnoreHeaderCase());
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ public class CSVFormatTest {
         assertEquals("\n", csvFormat.getRecordSeparator());
         assertFalse(csvFormat.getIgnoreEmptyLines());
 
-        assertEquals('\"', (char)csvFormat.getQuoteCharacter());
+        assertNull(csvFormat.getQuoteCharacter());
         assertTrue(csvFormat.isNullStringSet());
 
         Assertions.assertNotEquals(null, csvFormat);
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/csv/issues/JiraCsv290Test.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/csv/issues/JiraCsv290Test.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..106e7a19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/csv/issues/JiraCsv290Test.java
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.commons.csv.issues;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertArrayEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.StringReader;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVFormat;
+import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVParser;
+import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVPrinter;
+import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVRecord;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+// psql (14.5 (Homebrew))
+//
+// create table COMMONS_CSV_PSQL_TEST (ID INTEGER, COL1 VARCHAR, COL2 VARCHAR, COL3 VARCHAR, COL4 VARCHAR);
+// insert into COMMONS_CSV_PSQL_TEST select 1, 'abc', 'test line 1' || chr(10) || 'test line 2', null, '';
+// insert into COMMONS_CSV_PSQL_TEST select 2, 'xyz', '\b:' || chr(8) || ' \t:' || chr(9) || ' \n:' || chr(10) || ' \r:' || chr(13), 'a', 'b';
+// insert into COMMONS_CSV_PSQL_TEST values (3, 'a', 'b,c,d', '"quoted"', 'e');
+// copy COMMONS_CSV_PSQL_TEST TO '/tmp/psql.csv' WITH (FORMAT CSV);
+// copy COMMONS_CSV_PSQL_TEST TO '/tmp/psql.tsv';
+//
+// cat /tmp/psql.csv
+// 1,abc,"test line 1
+// test line 2",,""
+// 2,xyz,"\b:^H \t:         \n:
+//  \r:^M",a,b
+// 3,a,"b,c,d","""quoted""",e
+//
+// cat /tmp/psql.tsv
+// 1    abc    test line 1\ntest line 2                  \N
+// 2    xyz    \\b:\b \\t:\t \\n:\n \\r:\r    a          b
+// 3    a      b,c,d                         "quoted"    e
+//
+public class JiraCsv290Test {
+    private void testHelper(String filename, CSVFormat format) throws Exception {
+        List<List<String>> content = new ArrayList<>();
+        try (CSVParser csvParser = CSVParser.parse(new InputStreamReader(
+                this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/org/apache/commons/csv/CSV-290/" + filename)), format)) {
+            for (CSVRecord csvRecord : csvParser) {
+                List<String> row = new ArrayList<>();
+                content.add(row);
+                for (int i = 0; i < csvRecord.size(); i++) {
+                    row.add(csvRecord.get(i));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        assertEquals(3, content.size());
+
+        assertEquals("1", content.get(0).get(0));
+        assertEquals("abc", content.get(0).get(1));
+        assertEquals("test line 1\ntest line 2", content.get(0).get(2)); // new line
+        assertEquals(null, content.get(0).get(3)); // null
+        assertEquals("", content.get(0).get(4));
+
+        assertEquals("2", content.get(1).get(0));
+        assertEquals("\\b:\b \\t:\t \\n:\n \\r:\r", content.get(1).get(2)); // \b, \t, \n, \r
+
+        assertEquals("3", content.get(2).get(0));
+        assertEquals("b,c,d", content.get(2).get(2)); // value has comma
+        assertEquals("\"quoted\"", content.get(2).get(3)); // quoted
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testPostgresqlCsv() throws Exception {
+        testHelper("psql.csv", CSVFormat.POSTGRESQL_CSV);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testPostgresqlText() throws Exception {
+        testHelper("psql.tsv", CSVFormat.POSTGRESQL_TEXT);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testWriteThenRead() throws Exception {
+        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
+
+        CSVPrinter printer = new CSVPrinter(sw,
+                CSVFormat.POSTGRESQL_CSV.builder().setHeader().setSkipHeaderRecord(true).build());
+
+        printer.printRecord("column1", "column2");
+        printer.printRecord("v11", "v12");
+        printer.printRecord("v21", "v22");
+        printer.close();
+
+        CSVParser parser = new CSVParser(new StringReader(sw.toString()),
+                CSVFormat.POSTGRESQL_CSV.builder().setHeader().setSkipHeaderRecord(true).build());
+
+        assertArrayEquals(new Object[] { "column1", "column2" }, parser.getHeaderNames().toArray());
+
+        Iterator<CSVRecord> i = parser.iterator();
+        assertArrayEquals(new String[] { "v11", "v12" }, i.next().toList().toArray());
+        assertArrayEquals(new String[] { "v21", "v22" }, i.next().toList().toArray());
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/resources/org/apache/commons/csv/CSV-290/psql.csv b/src/test/resources/org/apache/commons/csv/CSV-290/psql.csv
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dd50f5a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/org/apache/commons/csv/CSV-290/psql.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+1,abc,"test line 1
+test line 2",,""
+2,xyz,"\b: \t:	 \n:
+ \r:
",a,b
+3,a,"b,c,d","""quoted""",e
diff --git a/src/test/resources/org/apache/commons/csv/CSV-290/psql.tsv b/src/test/resources/org/apache/commons/csv/CSV-290/psql.tsv
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5358d8ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/org/apache/commons/csv/CSV-290/psql.tsv
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+1	abc	test line 1\ntest line 2	\N	
+2	xyz	\\b:\b \\t:\t \\n:\n \\r:\r	a	b
+3	a	b,c,d	"quoted"	e