Instead of ignoring the first line of a COPY FROM ... WITH CSV HEADER,
what about allowing the first line to be used as a list of field names?
This means you wouldn't have to include field order in the COPY command
if the names matched field names in the table.
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:

>Instead of ignoring the first line of a COPY FROM ... WITH CSV HEADER,
>what about allowing the first line to be used as a list of field names?
>This means you wouldn't have to include field order in the COPY command
>if the names matched field names in the table.
>
>
It was debated ... could be dangerous, and you'd need extra syntax,
since we couldn't make it the default.

cheers

andrew

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