X-Original-To: pgsql-general-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7859DC9CF for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:00:27 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 86380-05 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:00:26 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from noel.decibel.org (noel.decibel.org [67.100.216.10]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CC5F9DC982 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:00:24 -0400 (AST) Received: from [10.5.20.30] (unknown [212.35.107.233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by noel.decibel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DCF55643D; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:00:21 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <4422B9F8.60100@oisinglynn.com> References: <4422B9F8.60100@oisinglynn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <483F344B-FF17-4DC5-8922-775213566788@pervasive.com> Cc: pgsql general Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jim Nasby Subject: Re: COPY command documentation Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:00:13 +0100 To: Oisin Glynn X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.3) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.12 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.120] X-Spam-Score: 0.12 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200603/1091 X-Sequence-Number: 92956 On Mar 23, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Oisin Glynn wrote: > I just discovered that the comments from 8.0 had the answer I was > looking for but these comments are not in the 8.1 docs. Should the > comments be rolled forward as new versions are created? Or if valid > comments added to the docs themselves? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-copy.html > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-copy.html No, comments don't roll forward. Generally someone will try and pull out comments that should be included in the docs and add them, but this comment barely touches on the backslash issue, so that's probably why it wasn't brought in. Care to submit a documentation patch? -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461