Re: [PATCHES] WITH DELIMITERS in COPY

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] WITH DELIMITERS in COPY
Date: 2002-03-05 18:01:36
Message-ID: 200203051801.g25I1a928368@candle.pha.pa.us
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Lee Kindness wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
> > [ COPY syntax ]
> > If we were working in a green field I'd vote for moving BINARY into the
> > WITH-options too, but we aren't. Again that seems too likely to break
> > things in the name of a small amount of added consistency.
>
> Hawabout 'COPY ...' retains the existing syntax but if used like 'COPY
> TABLE ...' sane syntax is used?

Interesting idea, but TABLE just seems to be a noise word to me. COPY
is one of those commands that it is hard to change because pg_dump
relies on it.

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