Re: COPY ... FROM stdin WITH FORMAT csv

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Paul Jungwirth <
pj(at)illuminatedcomputing(dot)com> wrote:

> On 03/21/2017 12:21 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
>
>> > words=> COPY words_reviews (uid, author, nice, review, updated) FROM
>> > stdin FORMAT csv;
>>
>> What did you read that lead you to think the above shoud work?
>>
>
> I don't know about COPY FROM, but COPY TO works without parens (or
> FORMAT), like this:
>
> db=> copy (select 1+1, 2+2) to stdout with csv;
> 2,4
>
> (tested on pg 9.5)
>
> I never use parens, so I was surprised to see in the docs and the replies
> here that they are necessary. Am I just exploiting a bug in the parser?

That's documented backward compatibility syntax:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql-copy.html

bottom of the page.

David J.
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