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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavlo Golub <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: COPY manual is ambiguous about column list
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 23:46:37 -0500
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Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> How is the attached patch?

!    In <command>COPY FROM</command>, the number of columns specified
!    must match the number of fields in the file;  any table columns not
!    specified in the <command>COPY FROM</command> column list will insert
!    their default values.

Phrasing seems a bit weird to me: you've run two nearly independent
observations into one sentence.  But s/; any/. Any/ might be enough
to fix it.

			regards, tom lane

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