Re: Regarding COPY command from Postgres 8.2.0

On 2007-09-14 soni de wrote:
> In Postgres 7.2.4, COPY command is working fine even if tables have 6
> fields but we are copying only 5 fields from the file
>
> But in Postgres 8.2.0, if table has 6 fields and we need to copy data
> for 5 fields only, then we need to specify the column names too in
> COPY command.
>
> Is there any configurable option, so that without specifying column
> name in COPY command we can copy records in table as happened in
> Postgres 7.2.4?

I don't know if it is possible, but even if it were I'd strongly
recommend against it, as you'd be relying on the order the columns were
created in. That's a rather bad idea IMHO. Why would you want to avoid
giving the names of the columns in the first place?

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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