Re: \copy needs work (was Re: Changing Column Order)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> writes:
> > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 12:43:37 +0300,
> >   Antti Haapala <antti.haapala@iki.fi> wrote:
> >> What about copy? AFAIK, copy doesn't allow column names being specified,
> >> so it's not purely aesthetic...
> 
> > The SQL COPY command does (at least in 7.3). The \copy psql command
> > doesn't seem to allow this though.
> 
> That's an oversight; \copy should have been fixed for 7.3.
> 
> Do we want to look at this as a bug (okay to fix for 7.3) or a new
> feature (wait for 7.4)?
> 
> I see something that I think is a must-fix omission in the same code:
> it should allow a schema-qualified table name.  So I'm inclined to fix
> both problems now.

I don't think we can say \copy missing columns is a bug;  we never had
it in previous release.  Seems like a missing feature.  The COPY schema
names seems valid.

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