
> One of the things we've agreed to do in 7.3 is change COPY IN to remove
> that assumption --- a line with too few fields (too few tabs) will draw
> an error report instead of silently doing what's likely the wrong thing.

But there will be new syntax for COPY, that allows missing trailing columns. 
I hope.

Andreas

Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:19:40 +0100
"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>
Re: COPY incorrectly uses null instead of an empty string in last
	field
"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at> writes:
>> One of the things we've agreed to do in 7.3 is change COPY IN to remove
>> that assumption --- a line with too few fields (too few tabs) will draw
>> an error report instead of silently doing what's likely the wrong thing.

> But there will be new syntax for COPY, that allows missing trailing columns. 
> I hope.

Why?

			regards, tom lane

Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:54:17 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: COPY incorrectly uses null instead of an empty string in last
	field