Suggest Win32 users user E'' strings and double backslashes used for

patch separators in COPY. Backpatch doubleing backslashes suggestion to 8.1.

Suggest Win32 users user E'' strings and double backslashes used for
patch separators in COPY. Backpatch doubleing backslashes suggestion to 8.1.
9d483b7b · Bruce Momjian · 2206b498 · 9d483b7b
Commit 9d483b7b authored Apr 22, 2006 by Bruce Momjian
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--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
 <!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml,v 1.73 2006/03/03 19:54:10 tgl Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml,v 1.74 2006/04/22 03:03:11 momjian Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
 -->

@@ -106,7 +106,9 @@ COPY <replaceable class="parameter">tablename</replaceable> [ ( <replaceable cla
    <term><replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable></term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
-      The absolute path name of the input or output file.
+      The absolute path name of the input or output file.  Windows users
+      might need to use an <literal>E''</> string and double backslashes
+      used as path separators.
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>