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Minor copy-editing.

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Tom Lane 2003-09-30 01:56:11 +00:00
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<!--
$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml,v 1.51 2003/09/22 00:16:57 petere Exp $
$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml,v 1.52 2003/09/30 01:56:11 tgl Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ COPY <replaceable class="parameter">tablename</replaceable> [ ( <replaceable cla
<term><replaceable class="parameter">tablename</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The name (possibly schema-qualified) of an existing table.
The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing table.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@ -355,10 +355,16 @@ COPY <replaceable class="parameter">tablename</replaceable> [ ( <replaceable cla
<para>
<command>COPY TO</command> will terminate each row with a Unix-style
newline (<quote><literal>\n</></>), or carriage return/newline
("\r\n") for servers running MS Windows.
newline (<quote><literal>\n</></>). Servers running on MS Windows instead
output carriage return/newline (<quote><literal>\r\n</></>), but only for
<command>COPY</> to a server file; for consistency across platforms,
<command>COPY TO STDOUT</> always sends <quote><literal>\n</></>
regardless of server platform.
<command>COPY FROM</command> can handle lines ending with newlines,
carriage returns, or carriage return/newlines.
carriage returns, or carriage return/newlines. To reduce the risk of
error due to un-backslashed newlines or carriage returns that were
meant as data, <command>COPY FROM</command> will complain if the line
endings in the input are not all alike.
</para>
</refsect2>
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To determine the appropriate binary format for the actual tuple data you
should consult the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> source, in
particular the <function>*send</> and <function>*recv</> functions for
the data type (typically found in the <filename>src/backend/utils/adt</filename>
directory). The <application>contrib/binarycopy</application> module
can also be used to create an appropriate format file.
each column's data type (typically these functions are found in the
<filename>src/backend/utils/adt/</filename> directory of the source
distribution).
</para>
<para>