Re: COPY syntax improvement

Bruce Momjian writes:

>     COPY table
>         FROM { 'filename' | stdin }
>         [ [ WITH ]
>               [ BINARY ]
>               [ OIDS ]
>               [ DELIMITER 'delimiter' ]
>               [ NULL AS 'null string' ] ]

I'm not sure what was wrong with the old syntax except for fixing the
DELIMITER plural.  For example, the current
   copy mytable with oids from stdin using delimiter '|';

reads very pleasantly, but
   copy mytable from stdin with oids delimiter '|';

isn't nearly as good.  (E.g., it's not the oids' delimiter, and it's not
*with* delimiter because you don't actually copy the delimiter, you just
use it.)

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net