Question about weird COPY syntax
Why is it that "DELIMITER", and "NULL" options are under [WITH] but
not under [CSV]. This seems at least slightly awkward.
Command: COPY
Description: copy data between a file and a table
Syntax:
COPY tablename [ ( column [, ...] ) ]
FROM { 'filename' | STDIN }
[ [ WITH ]
[ BINARY ]
[ OIDS ]
[ DELIMITER [ AS ] 'delimiter' ]
[ NULL [ AS ] 'null string' ]
[ CSV [ HEADER ] <-
Why not put them under this.
[ QUOTE [ AS ] 'quote' ]
[ ESCAPE [ AS ] 'escape' ]
[ FORCE NOT NULL column [, ...] ]
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Evan Carroll
System Lord of the Internets
http://www.evancarroll.com
While asking questions about the grammar of COPY why do we have a
bracket of `[ [ WITH ] ...` rather than `[ WITH ]` ...
COPY tablename [ ( column [, ...] ) ]
FROM { 'filename' | STDIN }
[ [ WITH ] (why is this opening bracket that is never closed here.)
[ BINARY ]
[ OIDS ]
[ DELIMITER [ AS ] 'delimiter' ]
[ NULL [ AS ] 'null string' ]
[ -PERL_key = value ]
[ -PERL_key ]
[ CSV [ HEADER ]
[ QUOTE [ AS ] 'quote' ]
[ ESCAPE [ AS ] 'escape' ]
[ FORCE NOT NULL column [, ...] ]
[ -TCSV_key ]
[ -TCSV_key = value ]
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Evan Carroll
System Lord of the Internets
http://www.evancarroll.com
Evan Carroll <me@evancarroll.com> writes:
While asking questions about the grammar of COPY why do we have a
bracket of `[ [ WITH ] ...` rather than `[ WITH ]` ...
Somebody left out the closing brackets in the documentation, evidently.
Will fix.
regards, tom lane