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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: COPY manual is ambiguous about column list
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> 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