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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.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: 2002-10-14T03:53:20Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general

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.

			regards, tom lane