Re: COPY syntax improvement - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: COPY syntax improvement
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0206192120500.929-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to COPY syntax improvement  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: COPY syntax improvement  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: COPY syntax improvement  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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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.)

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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