I have added the following patch for 8.2 that suggests using E'' strings
and doubling backslashes used as path separators, and backpatched the
later suggestion to 8.1. Thanks.
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Oisin Glynn wrote:
> I have driven myself to distraction for the last 30 minutes trying to
> get COPY to work on Windows XP. The Unix style c:/afolder/afile
> instead of c:\afolder\afile was a desperation attempt.
>
> I had tried all sorts of double slashes \\ putting the whole path in
> quotes basically all sorts of foolishness. I would suggest the there
> should be a Windows example(s) in the documents as well as a *NIX style
> one(s) where necessary. Did I miss this somewhere or should I put a
> comment on the doc or what can I do to help the next Windows user.
>
> Oisin
>
>
> P.S.
> I just discovered that the comments from 8.0 had the answer I was
> looking for but these comments are not in the 8.1 docs. Should the
> comments be rolled forward as new versions are created? Or if valid
> comments added to the docs themselves?
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-copy.html
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-copy.html
>
> Now happily using COPY,
> Oisin
>
>
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*** doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml 3 Mar 2006 19:54:10 -0000 1.73
--- doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml 22 Apr 2006 02:58:39 -0000
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*** 106,112 ****
<term><replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
! The absolute path name of the input or output file.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
--- 106,114 ----
<term><replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
! The absolute path name of the input or output file. Windows users
! might need to use an <literal>E''</> string and double backslashes
! used as path separators.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>