Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Bruce Momjian said:
> >
> > COPY tablename [ ( column [, ...] ) ]
> > TO { 'filename' | STDOUT }
> > [ [ WITH ]
> > [ BINARY ]
> > [ OIDS ]
> > [ DELIMITER [ AS ] 'delimiter' ]
> > [ NULL [ AS ] 'null string' ] ]
> >
> > [ CSV [ QUOTE 'quote' ] [ ESCAPE 'escape' ] ]
> >
> > DELIMITER default to tab, except in CSV mode, where it is a comma.
> >
> > That sounds very clear to me.
> >
>
>
> TIMTOWTDI, as we say in the perl world, and we could debate it endlessly.
> This looks fine to me.
>
> a few points:
>
> . ESCAPE should default to same-as-quote
> . in CSV mode, NULL should default to '' - that was in what I sent in.
> . I assume that for now we will enforce the one byte rule for QUOTE and
> ESCAPE as well as for DELIMITER.
Yes, agreed.
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