Question about COPY command

From: "Josh Harrison" <joshques(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "General postgres mailing list" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Question about COPY command
Date: 2009-01-08 13:39:22
Message-ID: 8d89ea1d0901080539t41c9faag728625273868ff50@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,
A basic question about the COPY command syntax....
This is the syntax in the postgres manual.

COPY *tablename* [ ( *column* [, ...] ) ]
FROM { '*filename*' | STDIN }
......
.....

What is the difference between copying from 'filename' and copying
from 'stdin' ???

Thanks
Josh

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