On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Paul Jungwirth < p...@illuminatedcomputing.com> wrote:
> On 03/21/2017 12:21 PM, David G. Johnston wrote: > >> > words=> COPY words_reviews (uid, author, nice, review, updated) FROM >> > stdin FORMAT csv; >> >> What did you read that lead you to think the above shoud work? >> > > I don't know about COPY FROM, but COPY TO works without parens (or > FORMAT), like this: > > db=> copy (select 1+1, 2+2) to stdout with csv; > 2,4 > > (tested on pg 9.5) > > I never use parens, so I was surprised to see in the docs and the replies > here that they are necessary. Am I just exploiting a bug in the parser? That's documented backward compatibility syntax: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql-copy.html bottom of the page. David J.
