On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Marcus Claesson wrote:

> > Why are you trying to put a backslash in there.  DBI is not the psql tool!
> > Get rid of the backslash.
>
> The reason for using \COPY here is that you otherwise have to be superuser to
> copy (with the plain COPY) the data into a created table. I'm building a web
> interface where the user will copy his data into the db himself and thus
> obviously cannot be the superuser.
> Of course, that can be done with INSERT too but a COPY is much faster.

There is no "\copy" in the SQL docs, is there?  The fact that there
happens to be a command you can use in psql called "\copy" does not mean
that there is an equivalent SQL statement.


-dave

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