Re: [PATCHES] WITH DELIMITERS in COPY - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [PATCHES] WITH DELIMITERS in COPY
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Msg-id 200203051801.g25I1a928368@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] WITH DELIMITERS in COPY  (Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>)
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Lee Kindness wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
>  > [ COPY syntax ]
>  > If we were working in a green field I'd vote for moving BINARY into the
>  > WITH-options too, but we aren't.  Again that seems too likely to break
>  > things in the name of a small amount of added consistency.
> 
> Hawabout 'COPY ...' retains the existing syntax but if used like 'COPY
> TABLE ...' sane syntax is used?

Interesting idea, but TABLE just seems to be a noise word to me.  COPY
is one of those commands that it is hard to change because pg_dump
relies on it.

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