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Re: COPY commands could use an enhancement.

Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>

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From: Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-04-30T13:25:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Basically:
> COPY "webmaster" FROM stdin;
> 
> could become:
> COPY "webmaster" FIELDS "id", "name", "ssn" FROM stdin;

We'd need some way of making field name dumping optional, because
one of the nice things about not having the field names appear is that
I can dump, change the field names, and re-slurp in the old dump.

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Joel Burton   <jburton@scw.org>
Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington