From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | petr(dot)lancaric(at)seznam(dot)cz |
Cc: | "pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Wrong COPY command synopsis |
Date: | 2017-09-27 16:53:07 |
Message-ID: | CAKFQuwaHo1=BaWA1K0_vYGFYawc55kzN==HeGvWuJLz7C_VkdA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 4:01 AM, <petr(dot)lancaric(at)seznam(dot)cz> wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-copy.html
> Description:
>
> Postgres psql (PostgreSQL) 9.5.4
>
> Wrong COPY command synopsis:
>
> 1. comma is not an options separator { ...( option [, ...] ... }
> 2. FORMAT is not a kewyword {... FORMAT format_name ... }
>
>
> Following two commands should be valid after synopsis, but they are not:
>
> gis=# COPY gis_entity FROM '/tmp/podl_db_city.csv' DELIMITER
> ',', FORMAT
> csv;
> ERROR: syntax error at or near ","
> LINE 1: ..._entity FROM '/tmp/podl_db_city.csv' DELIMITER
> ',', FORMAT c...
>
> ^
> gis=# COPY gis_entity FROM '/tmp/podl_db_city.csv' DELIMITER
> ',' FORMAT
> csv;
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "FORMAT"
> LINE 1: ...entity FROM '/tmp/podl_db_city.csv' DELIMITER
> ',' FORMAT csv...
>
The parentheses surrounding the options are not optional. Personally I
like to include the WITH.
COPY gis_entity FROM 'file.csv' WITH ( FORMAT csv );
David J.
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