[Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>]

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-copy.html
|. COPY FROM can be used with plain, foreign, or partitioned tables or with views that have INSTEAD OF INSERT triggers.
|. COPY only deals with the specific table named; IT DOES NOT COPY DATA TO OR FROM CHILD TABLES. ...

That language in commit 854b5eb51 was never updated since partitioning was
added, so I propose this.

I'm not sure, but maybe it should still say that "COPY TO does not copy data to
child tables of inheritance hierarchies."

inline patch 1: doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml (+8/-13 lines) download inline-1.patchdiff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
index 369342b74d..0631dfe6b3 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
@@ -414,9 +414,14 @@ COPY <replaceable class="parameter">count</replaceable>
 
    <para>
     <command>COPY TO</command> can only be used with plain tables, not
-    with views.  However, you can write <literal>COPY (SELECT * FROM
-    <replaceable class="parameter">viewname</replaceable>) TO ...</literal>
-    to copy the current contents of a view.
+    views, and does not copy data from child tables or partitions.
+    Thus for example
+    <literal>COPY <replaceable class="parameter">table</replaceable> TO</literal>
+    shows the same data as <literal>SELECT * FROM ONLY <replaceable
+    class="parameter">table</replaceable></literal>.  But <literal>COPY
+    (SELECT * FROM <replaceable class="parameter">table</replaceable>) TO ...</literal>
+    can be used to dump all of the data in an inheritance hierarchy,
+    partitioned table, or view.
    </para>
 
    <para>
@@ -425,16 +430,6 @@ COPY <replaceable class="parameter">count</replaceable>
     <literal>INSTEAD OF INSERT</literal> triggers.
    </para>
 
-   <para>
-    <command>COPY</command> only deals with the specific table named;
-    it does not copy data to or from child tables.  Thus for example
-    <literal>COPY <replaceable class="parameter">table</replaceable> TO</literal>
-    shows the same data as <literal>SELECT * FROM ONLY <replaceable
-    class="parameter">table</replaceable></literal>.  But <literal>COPY
-    (SELECT * FROM <replaceable class="parameter">table</replaceable>) TO ...</literal>
-    can be used to dump all of the data in an inheritance hierarchy.
-   </para>
-
    <para>
     You must have select privilege on the table
     whose values are read by <command>COPY TO</command>, and