Re: COPY command documentation

On Mar 23, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Oisin Glynn wrote:

> I just discovered that the comments from 8.0 had the answer I was
> looking for but these comments are not in the 8.1 docs. Should the
> comments be rolled forward as new versions are created? Or if valid
> comments added to the docs themselves?
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-copy.html
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-copy.html

No, comments don't roll forward. Generally someone will try and pull
out comments that should be included in the docs and add them, but
this comment barely touches on the backslash issue, so that's
probably why it wasn't brought in.

Care to submit a documentation patch?
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