Re: Question about weird COPY syntax

From: Evan Carroll <me(at)evancarroll(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Question about weird COPY syntax
Date: 2010-06-17 16:24:23
Message-ID: AANLkTilArK3J6LjR3CV09OQXX_haOcujSWppRbQ5-HVV@mail.gmail.com
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While asking questions about the grammar of COPY why do we have a
bracket of `[ [ WITH ] ...` rather than `[ WITH ]` ...

COPY tablename [ ( column [, ...] ) ]
FROM { 'filename' | STDIN }
[ [ WITH ] (why is this opening bracket that is never closed here.)
[ BINARY ]
[ OIDS ]
[ DELIMITER [ AS ] 'delimiter' ]
[ NULL [ AS ] 'null string' ]
[ -PERL_key = value ]
[ -PERL_key ]
[ CSV [ HEADER ]
[ QUOTE [ AS ] 'quote' ]
[ ESCAPE [ AS ] 'escape' ]
[ FORCE NOT NULL column [, ...] ]
[ -TCSV_key ]
[ -TCSV_key = value ]

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Evan Carroll
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