On Wed, 2021-06-09 at 19:54 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-copy.html
> Description:
>
> The synopsis and parameters for the COPY command show the FORCE_QUOTE option
> with an underscore and requires column names to be enclosed with round
> brackets, but the example in the compatibility section shows the option name
> as FORCE QUOTE (no underscore) and has no requirement to enclose the column
> names with round brackets.
>
> When using psql (version 13.3) against a version 13 cluster, the method
> shown in the compatibility section works whereas the methods shown in the
> synopsis and parameters sections do not work and will throw a syntax
> error.
You must be misreading something, the new syntax works:
COPY (SELECT 42 AS x) TO STDOUT (FORMAT 'csv', FORCE_QUOTE (x));
Yours,
Laurenz Albe