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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2006-04-22 03:03:11 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2006-04-22 03:03:11 +0000
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Suggest Win32 users user E'' strings and double backslashes used for
patch separators in COPY. Backpatch doubleing backslashes suggestion to 8.1.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
index e748cc2e8e9..c1d87e601c2 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 1.73 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>