Re: Add new error_action COPY ON_ERROR "log"

On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 6:36 PM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 1:46 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for updating the patch! Looks good to me.
> >
> > Please find the attached patch. I've made some changes for the
> > documentation and the commit message. I'll push it, barring any
> > objections.
>
> Thanks. v12 patch LGTM.
>

While testing the new option, I realized that the tab-completion
complements DEFAULT value, but it doesn't work without single-quotes:

postgres(1:2179134)=# copy test from '/tmp/dump.data' with
(log_verbosity default );
ERROR: syntax error at or near "default"
LINE 1: ...py test from '/tmp/dump.data' with (log_verbosity default );
^
postgres(1:2179134)=# copy test from '/tmp/dump.data' with
(log_verbosity 'default' );
COPY 0

Whereas VERBOSE works even without single-quotes:

postgres(1:2179134)=# copy test from '/tmp/dump.data' with
(log_verbosity verbose );
COPY 0

postgres(1:2179134)=# copy test from '/tmp/dump.data' with
(log_verbosity 'verbose' );
COPY 0

Which could confuse users. This is because DEFAULT is a reserved
keyword and the COPY option doesn't accept them as an option value.

I think that there are two options to handle it:

1. change COPY grammar to accept DEFAULT as an option value.
2. change tab-completion to complement 'DEFAULT' instead of DEFAULT,
and update the doc too.

As for the documentation, we can add single-quotes as follows:

ENCODING '<replaceable class="parameter">encoding_name</replaceable>'
+ LOG_VERBOSITY [ '<replaceable class="parameter">mode</replaceable>' ]

I thought the option (2) is better but there seems no precedent of
complementing a single-quoted string other than file names. So the
option (1) could be clearer.

What do you think?

Regards,

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