COPY commands could use an enhancement. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alfred Perlstein
Subject COPY commands could use an enhancement.
Date
Msg-id 20010430023551.X18676@fw.wintelcom.net
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Responses Re: COPY commands could use an enhancement.  (Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>)
Re: COPY commands could use an enhancement.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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It would be very helpful if the COPY command could be expanded
in order to provide positional parameters.

I noticed that it didn't a while back and it can really hurt
someone when they happen to try to use pg_dump to move data
from one database to another database and they happened to
create the feilds in the tables in different orders.

Basically:
COPY "webmaster" FROM stdin;

could become:
COPY "webmaster" FIELDS "id", "name", "ssn" FROM stdin;

this way when sourcing it would know where to place the
feilds.

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