Re: Added tab completion for the missing options in copy statement

vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>

From: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Ahsan Hadi <ahsan.hadi@gmail.com>
Date: 2020-07-18T11:19:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 4:36 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 04:12:02PM +0530, vignesh C wrote:
> > Can we specify Insert/Update or delete with copy?
> > When I tried few scenarios I was getting the following error:
> > ERROR:  COPY query must have a RETURNING clause
> >
> > I might be missing some scenarios, just wanted to confirm if this is
> > kept intentionally.
>
> This error message says it all, this is supported for a DML that
> includes a RETURNING clause:
> =# create table aa (a int);
> CREATE TABLE
> =# copy (insert into aa values (generate_series(2,5)) returning a)
>      to '/tmp/data.txt';
> COPY 4
> =# \! cat /tmp/data.txt
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
>

Thanks Michael for the clarification, the patch looks fine to me.


Regards,
Vignesh
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com



Commits

  1. Rework tab completion of COPY and \copy in psql

  2. doc: Fix description of \copy for psql