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| author | Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org> | 2012-08-30 13:17:21 -0400 |
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| committer | Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org> | 2012-08-30 13:18:23 -0400 |
| commit | b9ea8d20fde981997425ba72de7aa23e319e753e (patch) | |
| tree | c3b131bbdc1eed5e9e541ba66a21389b21cdfe04 | |
| parent | 48a9c7823e032fde54cb0658fbd488809a3fdc69 (diff) | |
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Document that COPY OUT requires an absolute pathname.
As suggested by Etsuro Fujita, but with somewhat different wording.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml index e5f45f4a8af..b2a6dd797ce 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml @@ -116,9 +116,10 @@ COPY { <replaceable class="parameter">table_name</replaceable> [ ( <replaceable <term><replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable></term> <listitem> <para> - The absolute path name of the input or output file. Windows users - might need to use an <literal>E''</> string and double any backslashes - used in the path name. + The path name of the input or output file. An input filename can be + an absolute or relative path, but an output filename must be an absolute + path. Windows users might need to use an <literal>E''</> string and + double any backslashes used in the path name. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |