Re: \copy needs work (was Re: Changing Column Order)

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, Antti Haapala <antti(dot)haapala(at)iki(dot)fi>, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: \copy needs work (was Re: Changing Column Order)
Date: 2002-10-14 04:12:10
Message-ID: 200210140412.g9E4CAI07835@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Do we want to look at this as a bug (okay to fix for 7.3) or a new
> >> feature (wait for 7.4)?
>
> > I don't think we can say \copy missing columns is a bug; we never had
> > it in previous release. Seems like a missing feature. The COPY schema
> > names seems valid.
>
> Well, we never had schema names in previous releases either. So I'm not
> sure that I see a bright line between these items. The real issue is
> that psql's \copy has failed to track the capabilities of backend COPY.
> I think we should just fix it.

OK, I added it to the open items list.

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