Re: Question about COPY command

On 08/01/2009 13:39, Josh Harrison wrote:

> What is the difference between copying from 'filename' and copying from 'stdin' ???

You'll see COPY from stdin in pg_dump scripts - when restoring via psql,
the entire input to psql is coming from stdin, so COPY FROM stdin tells
it to expect the data from there also.

COPY FROM <filename> tells it to take the input from an external disk file.

Ray.

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