Re: COPY syntax improvement

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> >     COPY table
> >         FROM { 'filename' | stdin }
> >         [ [ WITH ]
> >               [ BINARY ]
> >               [ OIDS ]
> >               [ DELIMITER 'delimiter' ]
> >               [ NULL AS 'null string' ] ]
> 
> I'm not sure what was wrong with the old syntax except for fixing the
> DELIMITER plural.  For example, the current
> 
>     copy mytable with oids from stdin using delimiter '|';
> 
> reads very pleasantly, but
> 
>     copy mytable from stdin with oids delimiter '|';
> 
> isn't nearly as good.  (E.g., it's not the oids' delimiter, and it's not
> *with* delimiter because you don't actually copy the delimiter, you just
> use it.)

New supported syntax I posted is now DELIMITER [AS] ' '.  I noticed that
problem myself, that NULL had AS but DELIMITER didn't.

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