Re: COPY syntax improvement

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.)

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net