Re: COPY command documentation

Hi Oisin,
I am right in the condition you described, but nowadays the 8.0
documentation is only available without comments.
I tried the way suggested by Richard Sydney-Smith (*eliminating the spaces
in the path*), but unsuccessfully.
Could you please help me?
thanks, Fabio

*hint from Richard Sydney-Smith*
(
http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Windows-file-path-for-copy-tt1847135.html
):
/Windows XP SP2 with Postgresql 8.0.3
Two commands on fails the other succeeds:
*Fails *:
select import_sharedata('C:\\Documents and
Settings\\Richard\\Desktop\\EzyChart-20050721');
*Succeeds*:
select import_sharedata('C:\\EzyChart-20050721'); /

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. [...]
> 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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