Lee Kindness writes: > Are you serious? You'd like to mess up the COPY syntax even further > for a purely grammatical reason!
We already "messed up" the COPY syntax in this release to achieve better user friendliness. I do not think it's unreasonable to review this goal from a variety of angles. > A good few months ago I put formward an idea to change (well migrate > really) to "COPY TABLE" rather than "COPY" - this would allow a well > designed and thoughtout syntax for the new version while retaining old > compatibility. Well, I am the first to agree that the current syntax is not well designed, but I must admit that I don't quite see what benefit simply adding "TABLE" would have. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
