I think I'll go with Tom's Plan B for HEAD, but not do anything more for
8.2 than has already been done.
cheers
andrew
Bruce Momjian wrote:
Did we come to a conclusion on this?
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Andrew
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The consequence will be, though, that psql will accept a syntax for
\copy (query) ... that the corresponding backend command would
reject were we not transforming it. That strikes me as potentially
confusing.
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
oh, good point. OK, I have cut this quick patch that will continue to
accept the legacy syntax in psql in non-inline-query cases, but will
make psql unreservedly emit new style syntax for COPY to the backend.
Does that seem reasonable, or is it too
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
oh, good point. OK, I have cut this quick patch that will continue to
accept the legacy syntax in psql in non-inline-query cases, but will
make psql unreservedly emit new style syntax for COPY to the backend.
Does that seem
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The consequence will be, though, that psql will accept a syntax for
\copy (query) ... that the corresponding backend command would reject
were we not transforming it. That strikes me as potentially confusing.
Perhaps. What about plan B: remove the
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The consequence will be, though, that psql will accept a syntax for
\copy (query) ... that the corresponding backend command would reject
were we not transforming it. That strikes me as potentially confusing.
Perhaps. What
psql's \copy (query) with a delimiter yields a syntax error:
test= \copy foo to foo.txt delimiter '|'
(works)
test= \copy (select * from foo) to foo.txt
(works)
test= \copy (select * from foo) to foo.txt delimiter '|'
ERROR: syntax error at or near USING
LINE 1: COPY ( select *
Michael Fuhr wrote:
psql's \copy (query) with a delimiter yields a syntax error:
test= \copy foo to foo.txt delimiter '|'
(works)
test= \copy (select * from foo) to foo.txt
(works)
test= \copy (select * from foo) to foo.txt delimiter '|'
ERROR: syntax error at or near USING
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:52:29AM -0600, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
I'd say fix psql. Not sure how far back we should backpatch it. It's
interesting that this has been there since 8.0 and is only now discovered.
The problem is new in 8.2 because COPY (query) doesn't support USING
DELIMITERS. COPY
Michael Fuhr wrote:
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:52:29AM -0600, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
I'd say fix psql. Not sure how far back we should backpatch it. It's
interesting that this has been there since 8.0 and is only now discovered.
The problem is new in 8.2 because COPY (query) doesn't
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