Re: [PATCH] COPY vs \copy HINT

On 5 September 2016 at 16:32, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:

> The part about the server permissions might be useful to hint at.

> What about
>
> "COPY TO instructs the PostgreSQL server to write to a file on the server. "
> "You may want a client-side facility such as psql's \\copy."
>
> "COPY FROM instructs the PostgreSQL server to read from a file on the server. "
> "You may want a client-side facility such as psql's \\copy."
>
> This stresses more explicitly that the file is opened by the server
> process. (I'm not particularly happy that it says "server" in there
> twice, but couldn't think of anything else.)

Tom, any preference here?

I'm probably inclined to go for your original wording and accept that
it's just too hard to hint at the client/server process split in a
single short message.

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