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

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>, Antti Haapala <antti.haapala@iki.fi>, Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-10-14T04:12:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> 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 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.
> 
> Well, we never had schema names in previous releases either.  So I'm not
> sure that I see a bright line between these items.  The real issue is
> that psql's \copy has failed to track the capabilities of backend COPY.
> I think we should just fix it.

OK, I added it to the open items list.

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