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Here is a /doc patch for the oid preservation code. 

Submitted by: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Marc G. Fournier 1996-09-19 20:09:02 +00:00
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doc/man/copy.l
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.\" This is -*-nroff-*-
.\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here....
.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/man/Attic/copy.l,v 1.2 1996/09/19 20:08:09 scrappy Exp $
.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/man/Attic/copy.l,v 1.3 1996/09/19 20:09:01 scrappy Exp $
.TH COPY SQL 11/05/95 Postgres95 Postgres95
.SH NAME
copy \(em copy data to or from a class from or to a Unix file.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
\fBcopy\fP [\fBbinary\fP] classname
\fBcopy\fP [\fBbinary\fP] classname [\fBwith oids\fP]
\fBto\fP|\fBfrom\fP "filename"|\fBstdin\fR|\fBstdout\fR
[\fBUSING DELIMITERS\fP delim]
[\fBusing delimiters\fP delim]
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR Copy
@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ keyword
changes the behavior of field formatting, as described below.
.IR Classname
is the name of an existing class.
The keyword
.BR "with oids"
copies the internal unique object id (OID) for each row.
.IR Classname
is the name of an existing class.
.IR Filename
is the Unix pathname of the file. In place of a filename, the
keywords
@ -26,7 +31,9 @@ can be used so that input to
.BR copy
can be written by a Libpq application and output from the
.BR copy
command can be read by a Libpq application. The
command can be read by a Libpq application.
.PP
The
.BR binary
keyword will force all data to be stored/read as binary objects rather
than as ASCII text. It is somewhat faster than the normal
@ -34,12 +41,15 @@ than as ASCII text. It is somewhat faster than the normal
command, but is not generally portable, and the files generated are
somewhat larger, although this factor is highly dependent on the data
itself.
.PP
By default,
When copying in, the
.BR "with oids"
keyword should only be used on an empty database because
the loaded oids could conflict with existing oids.
By default, a ASCII
.BR copy
uses a tab (\\t) character as a delimiter. The delimiter may also be changed
to any other single-character with the use of
.BR "USING DELIMITERS" .
.BR "using delimiters" .
Characters in data fields which happen to match the delimiter character
will be quoted.
.PP
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.nf
<attr1><tab><attr2><tab>...<tab><attrn><newline>
.fi
The oid is placed on the beginning of the line if specified.
.PP
If
.BR copy
@ -111,12 +122,16 @@ this format must be followed
Unsigned four-byte integer quantities are called uint32 in the below
description.
.nf
uint32 totallength (not including itself),
uint32 number of null attributes
[uint32 attribute number of first null attribute
The first value is:
uint32 number of tuples
then for each tuple:
uint32 total length of data segment
uint32 oid (if specified)
uint32 number of null attributes
[uint32 attribute number of first null attribute
...
uint32 attribute number of nth null attribute],
<data>
<data segment>
.fi
.bp
.SS "ALIGNMENT OF BINARY DATA"

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.\" This is -*-nroff-*-
.\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here....
.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/man/Attic/pg_dump.1,v 1.1.1.1 1996/08/18 22:14:26 scrappy Exp $
.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/man/Attic/pg_dump.1,v 1.2 1996/09/19 20:09:02 scrappy Exp $
.TH PG_DUMP UNIX 1/20/96 Postgres95 Postgres95
.SH NAME
pg_dump \(em dumps out a Postgres database into a script file
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.BR "-v"
]
[\c
.BR "-d[a]"
]
[\c
.BR "-S"
help]
[\c
.BR "-a"
]
[\c
.BR "-t"
table]
[\c
.BR "-o"
]
dbname
.in -5n
.SH DESCRIPTION