Re: COPY and read-only transactions

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:20:04PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I probably made the original mistake in the code, so I refrain from claiming
> to know anything about Boolean logic, but this note in the release notes
> doesn't seem right:
>
> Fix the sense of the test for read-only transaction in COPY
> The code formerly prohibited COPY TO, where it should prohibit COPY FROM.

COPY FROM STDIN is copying FROM the user TO the database
COPY TO STDIN is copying TO the user FROM the database

Does that help?

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