Re: COPY syntax improvement

Well, good points. I know there were some people who wanted a clearer
syntax, so I supplied it. Seems you don't. I would like to hear from
someone else who doesn't like the improved syntax before I consider
changing things back.

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > I thought there were complaints that the old COPY syntax just had too
> > many features stuffed in too many unusual places,
>
> Haven't ever seen one. This command has no precedent in other products,
> only years of going virtually unchanged in PostgreSQL. Changing it now
> and allowing countless permutations of the key words is going to be
> confusing, IMHO.
>
> > e.g. delimiter after
> > filename,
>
> COPY is the only command to use a delimiter, so this can hardly be
> qualified as an "unusual" place.
>
> > oids after tablename,
>
> That's because the OIDs are in said table.
>
> > binary after COPY,
>
> Which is consistent with DECLARE BINARY CURSOR.
>
> > NULL after delimiter.
>
> OK, that order should perhaps be more flexible.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
>
>

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