Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > COPY table
> > FROM { 'filename' | stdin }
> > [ [ WITH ]
> > [ BINARY ]
> > [ OIDS ]
> > [ DELIMITER 'delimiter' ]
> > [ NULL AS 'null string' ] ]
>
> I'm not sure what was wrong with the old syntax except for fixing the
> DELIMITER plural. For example, the current
>
> copy mytable with oids from stdin using delimiter '|';
>
> reads very pleasantly, but
>
> copy mytable from stdin with oids delimiter '|';
>
> isn't nearly as good. (E.g., it's not the oids' delimiter, and it's not
> *with* delimiter because you don't actually copy the delimiter, you just
> use it.)
New supported syntax I posted is now DELIMITER [AS] ' '. I noticed that
problem myself, that NULL had AS but DELIMITER didn't.
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