Re: COPY manual is ambiguous about column list - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Pavlo Golub
Subject Re: COPY manual is ambiguous about column list
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Msg-id CAMtUEpCHp=QJP5O3EZosq5-czxFBcQsTtrGF0aisHr0JnsOz+A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: COPY manual is ambiguous about column list  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 17:53, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 02:53:03PM +0100, Pavlo Golub wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 10:47, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2019-11-27 at 17:54 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> > > > "If a list of columns is specified, COPY will only copy the data in the
> > > > specified columns to or from the file. If there are any columns in the table
> > > > that are not in the column list, COPY FROM will insert the default values
> > > > for those columns."
> > > >
> > > > I clearly see "to or from" file here. But if one tries to COPY FROM filename
> > > > with more columns than list specified, the process fails:
> > >
> > > I think you misunderstood the documentation.
> >
> > Yeap, I did. Even two of us. Laetitia was helping me :)
> >
> > >
> > > Nowhere in that sentence is the documentation talking about columns in
> > > the file, only columns in the table.
> > >
> > > But if you got it wrong, maybe a clarification would be a good idea.
> >
> > I think it better to have more details to avoid confusion.
>
> How is the attached patch?

Sounds great to me! Thanks!

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