Re: COPY manual is ambiguous about column list

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:33:48PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Thursday, December 19, 2019, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
>     "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
>     > Seems better to simply talk about each form independently:
> 
>     > If a list of columns is specified, <command>COPY TO</command> will only
>     > copy the data in the specified columns to the file.  <command>COPY
>     > FROM</command> will, by position (i.e., the number of columns listed must
>     > match the number of columns in the file), match each file column to the
>     > named column in the table.  Any additional columns present in the table
>     > will receive their default value.
> 
>     +1 for separating it like that, but your middle sentence reads awkwardly
>     to me.  How about something like
> 
>       <command>COPY FROM</command> will match each listed column in the table
>       to a file column by position (so the number of columns listed must match
>       the number of columns in the file).
> 
>                       
> 
> 
> +1

OK, how is this?

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