Bruce Momjian writes:
> > I'm not sure, that would break the basic line of error checking in COPY.
> 
> It would be active only for pg_shadow and no other table.  However, I
> see that having not enough column in COPY fills the rest with NULL and
> does not report an error.
The problem remains that this change is conceptually questionable in the
first place.
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