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

From Alfred Perlstein
Subject Re: COPY commands could use an enhancement.
Date
Msg-id 20010430062922.Y18676@fw.wintelcom.net
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In response to Re: COPY commands could use an enhancement.  (Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>)
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* Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> [010430 06:26] wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > Basically:
> > COPY "webmaster" FROM stdin;
> > 
> > could become:
> > COPY "webmaster" FIELDS "id", "name", "ssn" FROM stdin;
> 
> We'd need some way of making field name dumping optional, because
> one of the nice things about not having the field names appear is that
> I can dump, change the field names, and re-slurp in the old dump.

Of course!

I meant this as an additional option, not as a replacement.

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