BUG #5964: doc bug -- copy does not take "format" literal

From: "Chris Curvey" <chris(at)chriscurvey(dot)com>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: BUG #5964: doc bug -- copy does not take "format" literal
Date: 2011-04-03 00:44:50
Message-ID: 201104030044.p330iouQ010886@wwwmaster.postgresql.org
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The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 5964
Logged by: Chris Curvey
Email address: chris(at)chriscurvey(dot)com
PostgreSQL version: 9.0.3
Operating system: Linux (ubuntu 10.10 server 64-bit)
Description: doc bug -- copy does not take "format" literal
Details:

in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-copy.html, the
documentation implies that you specify a format using the literal "format",
followed by one of the literals "text", "csv" or "binary".

Yet the following statement fails with "syntax error near 'format'"

copy zipcode_stage from '/path/to/zip_codes.csv' format csv header delimiter
e'\t';

and the following command (without 'format' succeeds)

copy zipcode_stage from '/Users/chris/pgperf/data/zip_codes.csv' csv header
delimiter e'\t';

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