Commit c86e85df authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

Update COPY manual page to remove unneeded warnings.

parent 9db76f38
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.TH COPY SQL 11/05/95 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
.SH NAME
copy \(em copy data to or from a class from or to a Unix file.
......@@ -41,10 +41,6 @@ than as ASCII text. It is somewhat faster than the normal
command, but is not generally portable, and the files generated are
somewhat larger, although this factor is highly dependent on the data
itself.
When copying in, the
.BR "with oids"
keyword should only be used on an empty database because
the loaded oids could conflict with existing oids.
By default, a ASCII
.BR copy
uses a tab (\\t) character as a delimiter. The delimiter may also be changed
......@@ -169,9 +165,3 @@ yield unexpected results for the naive user. In this case,
.SM $PGDATA\c
/foo. In general, the full pathname should be used when specifying
files to be copied.
.PP
.BR Copy
has virtually no error checking, and a malformed input file will
likely cause the backend to crash. You should avoid using
.BR copy
for input whenever possible.
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