On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Emmanuel Cecchet <manu@asterdata.com> writes:
>> The new syntax could look like:
>
>> COPY /tablename/ [ ( /column/ [, ...] ) ]
>> FROM { '/filename/' | STDIN }
>> [ [, BINARY ]
>> [, OIDS ]
>> [, DELIMITER [ AS ] '/delimiter/' ]
>> [, NULL [ AS ] '/null string/' ]
>> [, CSV [ HEADER ]
>> [ QUOTE [ AS ] '/quote/' ]
>> [ ESCAPE [ AS ] '/escape/' ]
>> [ FORCE NOT NULL (/column/ [, ...]) ]
>> [, ERRORS { SKIP |
>> LOG INTO { tablename | 'filename' }
>> [ LABEL label_name ]
>> [ KEY key_name ]
>> [ MAX ERRORS /count/ ] } ]
>
>> Is this what you had in mind?
>
> No. because that doesn't do a darn thing to make the option set less
> hard-wired into the syntax. I was thinking of a strict keyword/value
> format with non-wired-in keywords ... and only *one* keyword per value.
> See EXPLAIN.
I was thinking something like:
COPY tablename [ ( column [, ...] ) ] FROM { 'filename' | STDIN }
[WITH] [option [, ...]]
Where:
option := ColId [Sconst] | FORCE NOT NULL (column [,...])
I don't see any reasonable way to sandwhich the FORCE NOT NULL syntax
into a keyword/value notation.
...Robert
