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authorBruce Momjian2000-04-18 23:44:58 +0000
committerBruce Momjian2000-04-18 23:44:58 +0000
commit3296e6fe68f23229af7e7004abdeecc0957cd4eb (patch)
treefe3229c02cf0dcf418cffc8c23bb15e444c79dc6 /doc/src
parent74d1478c6e63f3ea5e4ec4ba37e1dd0ba3cdc733 (diff)
More cleanup
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
index fac440bf9f2..bdebff077b1 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml,v 1.15 2000/04/18 23:43:24 momjian Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml,v 1.16 2000/04/18 23:44:58 momjian Exp $
Postgres documentation
-->
@@ -196,12 +196,14 @@ ERROR: <replaceable>reason</replaceable>
stored/read as binary format rather than as text. It is
somewhat faster than the normal copy command, but is not
generally portable, and the files generated are somewhat larger,
- although this factor is highly dependent on the data itself. By
- default, a text copy uses a tab ("\t") character as a delimiter.
+ although this factor is highly dependent on the data itself.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ By default, a text copy uses a tab ("\t") character as a delimiter.
The delimiter may also be changed to any other single character
with the keyword phrase USING DELIMITERS. Characters
in data fields which happen to match the delimiter character will
- be quoted.
+ be backslash quoted.
</para>
<para>