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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2007-04-18 00:17:56 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2007-04-18 00:17:56 +0000
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Document that the COPY delimiter must be an ASCII byte, rather than a
multi-byte value. It can also be a single-byte encoded character if the client and server versions match. Backpatch to 8.2.X.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
index 5d3bf590675..0140ea28aeb 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml,v 1.78 2007/01/31 23:26:03 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml,v 1.79 2007/04/18 00:17:56 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ COPY { <replaceable class="parameter">tablename</replaceable> [ ( <replaceable c
<term><replaceable class="parameter">delimiter</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The single character that separates columns within each row
+ The single ASCII character that separates columns within each row
(line) of the file. The default is a tab character in text mode,
a comma in <literal>CSV</> mode.
</para>