1COPY(7)                  PostgreSQL 13.4 Documentation                 COPY(7)
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NAME

6       COPY - copy data between a file and a table
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SYNOPSIS

9       COPY table_name [ ( column_name [, ...] ) ]
10           FROM { 'filename' | PROGRAM 'command' | STDIN }
11           [ [ WITH ] ( option [, ...] ) ]
12           [ WHERE condition ]
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14       COPY { table_name [ ( column_name [, ...] ) ] | ( query ) }
15           TO { 'filename' | PROGRAM 'command' | STDOUT }
16           [ [ WITH ] ( option [, ...] ) ]
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18       where option can be one of:
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20           FORMAT format_name
21           FREEZE [ boolean ]
22           DELIMITER 'delimiter_character'
23           NULL 'null_string'
24           HEADER [ boolean ]
25           QUOTE 'quote_character'
26           ESCAPE 'escape_character'
27           FORCE_QUOTE { ( column_name [, ...] ) | * }
28           FORCE_NOT_NULL ( column_name [, ...] )
29           FORCE_NULL ( column_name [, ...] )
30           ENCODING 'encoding_name'
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DESCRIPTION

33       COPY moves data between PostgreSQL tables and standard file-system
34       files.  COPY TO copies the contents of a table to a file, while COPY
35       FROM copies data from a file to a table (appending the data to whatever
36       is in the table already).  COPY TO can also copy the results of a
37       SELECT query.
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39       If a column list is specified, COPY TO copies only the data in the
40       specified columns to the file. For COPY FROM, each field in the file is
41       inserted, in order, into the specified column. Table columns not
42       specified in the COPY FROM column list will receive their default
43       values.
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45       COPY with a file name instructs the PostgreSQL server to directly read
46       from or write to a file. The file must be accessible by the PostgreSQL
47       user (the user ID the server runs as) and the name must be specified
48       from the viewpoint of the server. When PROGRAM is specified, the server
49       executes the given command and reads from the standard output of the
50       program, or writes to the standard input of the program. The command
51       must be specified from the viewpoint of the server, and be executable
52       by the PostgreSQL user. When STDIN or STDOUT is specified, data is
53       transmitted via the connection between the client and the server.
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PARAMETERS

56       table_name
57           The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing table.
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59       column_name
60           An optional list of columns to be copied. If no column list is
61           specified, all columns of the table except generated columns will
62           be copied.
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64       query
65           A SELECT(7), VALUES(7), INSERT(7), UPDATE(7) or DELETE(7) command
66           whose results are to be copied. Note that parentheses are required
67           around the query.
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69           For INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE queries a RETURNING clause must be
70           provided, and the target relation must not have a conditional rule,
71           nor an ALSO rule, nor an INSTEAD rule that expands to multiple
72           statements.
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74       filename
75           The path name of the input or output file. An input file name can
76           be an absolute or relative path, but an output file name must be an
77           absolute path. Windows users might need to use an E'' string and
78           double any backslashes used in the path name.
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80       PROGRAM
81           A command to execute. In COPY FROM, the input is read from standard
82           output of the command, and in COPY TO, the output is written to the
83           standard input of the command.
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85           Note that the command is invoked by the shell, so if you need to
86           pass any arguments to shell command that come from an untrusted
87           source, you must be careful to strip or escape any special
88           characters that might have a special meaning for the shell. For
89           security reasons, it is best to use a fixed command string, or at
90           least avoid passing any user input in it.
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92       STDIN
93           Specifies that input comes from the client application.
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95       STDOUT
96           Specifies that output goes to the client application.
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98       boolean
99           Specifies whether the selected option should be turned on or off.
100           You can write TRUE, ON, or 1 to enable the option, and FALSE, OFF,
101           or 0 to disable it. The boolean value can also be omitted, in which
102           case TRUE is assumed.
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104       FORMAT
105           Selects the data format to be read or written: text, csv (Comma
106           Separated Values), or binary. The default is text.
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108       FREEZE
109           Requests copying the data with rows already frozen, just as they
110           would be after running the VACUUM FREEZE command. This is intended
111           as a performance option for initial data loading. Rows will be
112           frozen only if the table being loaded has been created or truncated
113           in the current subtransaction, there are no cursors open and there
114           are no older snapshots held by this transaction. It is currently
115           not possible to perform a COPY FREEZE on a partitioned table.
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117           Note that all other sessions will immediately be able to see the
118           data once it has been successfully loaded. This violates the normal
119           rules of MVCC visibility and users specifying should be aware of
120           the potential problems this might cause.
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122       DELIMITER
123           Specifies the character that separates columns within each row
124           (line) of the file. The default is a tab character in text format,
125           a comma in CSV format. This must be a single one-byte character.
126           This option is not allowed when using binary format.
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128       NULL
129           Specifies the string that represents a null value. The default is
130           \N (backslash-N) in text format, and an unquoted empty string in
131           CSV format. You might prefer an empty string even in text format
132           for cases where you don't want to distinguish nulls from empty
133           strings. This option is not allowed when using binary format.
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135               Note
136               When using COPY FROM, any data item that matches this string
137               will be stored as a null value, so you should make sure that
138               you use the same string as you used with COPY TO.
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140       HEADER
141           Specifies that the file contains a header line with the names of
142           each column in the file. On output, the first line contains the
143           column names from the table, and on input, the first line is
144           ignored. This option is allowed only when using CSV format.
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146       QUOTE
147           Specifies the quoting character to be used when a data value is
148           quoted. The default is double-quote. This must be a single one-byte
149           character. This option is allowed only when using CSV format.
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151       ESCAPE
152           Specifies the character that should appear before a data character
153           that matches the QUOTE value. The default is the same as the QUOTE
154           value (so that the quoting character is doubled if it appears in
155           the data). This must be a single one-byte character. This option is
156           allowed only when using CSV format.
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158       FORCE_QUOTE
159           Forces quoting to be used for all non-NULL values in each specified
160           column.  NULL output is never quoted. If * is specified, non-NULL
161           values will be quoted in all columns. This option is allowed only
162           in COPY TO, and only when using CSV format.
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164       FORCE_NOT_NULL
165           Do not match the specified columns' values against the null string.
166           In the default case where the null string is empty, this means that
167           empty values will be read as zero-length strings rather than nulls,
168           even when they are not quoted. This option is allowed only in COPY
169           FROM, and only when using CSV format.
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171       FORCE_NULL
172           Match the specified columns' values against the null string, even
173           if it has been quoted, and if a match is found set the value to
174           NULL. In the default case where the null string is empty, this
175           converts a quoted empty string into NULL. This option is allowed
176           only in COPY FROM, and only when using CSV format.
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178       ENCODING
179           Specifies that the file is encoded in the encoding_name. If this
180           option is omitted, the current client encoding is used. See the
181           Notes below for more details.
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183       WHERE
184           The optional WHERE clause has the general form
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186               WHERE condition
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188           where condition is any expression that evaluates to a result of
189           type boolean. Any row that does not satisfy this condition will not
190           be inserted to the table. A row satisfies the condition if it
191           returns true when the actual row values are substituted for any
192           variable references.
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194           Currently, subqueries are not allowed in WHERE expressions, and the
195           evaluation does not see any changes made by the COPY itself (this
196           matters when the expression contains calls to VOLATILE functions).
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OUTPUTS

199       On successful completion, a COPY command returns a command tag of the
200       form
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202           COPY count
203
204       The count is the number of rows copied.
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206           Note
207           psql will print this command tag only if the command was not COPY
208           ... TO STDOUT, or the equivalent psql meta-command \copy ... to
209           stdout. This is to prevent confusing the command tag with the data
210           that was just printed.
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NOTES

213       COPY TO can be used only with plain tables, not views, and does not
214       copy rows from child tables or child partitions. For example, COPY
215       table TO copies the same rows as SELECT * FROM ONLY table. The syntax
216       COPY (SELECT * FROM table) TO ...  can be used to dump all of the rows
217       in an inheritance hierarchy, partitioned table, or view.
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219       COPY FROM can be used with plain, foreign, or partitioned tables or
220       with views that have INSTEAD OF INSERT triggers.
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222       You must have select privilege on the table whose values are read by
223       COPY TO, and insert privilege on the table into which values are
224       inserted by COPY FROM. It is sufficient to have column privileges on
225       the column(s) listed in the command.
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227       If row-level security is enabled for the table, the relevant SELECT
228       policies will apply to COPY table TO statements. Currently, COPY FROM
229       is not supported for tables with row-level security. Use equivalent
230       INSERT statements instead.
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232       Files named in a COPY command are read or written directly by the
233       server, not by the client application. Therefore, they must reside on
234       or be accessible to the database server machine, not the client. They
235       must be accessible to and readable or writable by the PostgreSQL user
236       (the user ID the server runs as), not the client. Similarly, the
237       command specified with PROGRAM is executed directly by the server, not
238       by the client application, must be executable by the PostgreSQL user.
239       COPY naming a file or command is only allowed to database superusers or
240       users who are granted one of the default roles pg_read_server_files,
241       pg_write_server_files, or pg_execute_server_program, since it allows
242       reading or writing any file or running a program that the server has
243       privileges to access.
244
245       Do not confuse COPY with the psql instruction \copy.  \copy invokes
246       COPY FROM STDIN or COPY TO STDOUT, and then fetches/stores the data in
247       a file accessible to the psql client. Thus, file accessibility and
248       access rights depend on the client rather than the server when \copy is
249       used.
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251       It is recommended that the file name used in COPY always be specified
252       as an absolute path. This is enforced by the server in the case of COPY
253       TO, but for COPY FROM you do have the option of reading from a file
254       specified by a relative path. The path will be interpreted relative to
255       the working directory of the server process (normally the cluster's
256       data directory), not the client's working directory.
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258       Executing a command with PROGRAM might be restricted by the operating
259       system's access control mechanisms, such as SELinux.
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261       COPY FROM will invoke any triggers and check constraints on the
262       destination table. However, it will not invoke rules.
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264       For identity columns, the COPY FROM command will always write the
265       column values provided in the input data, like the INSERT option
266       OVERRIDING SYSTEM VALUE.
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268       COPY input and output is affected by DateStyle. To ensure portability
269       to other PostgreSQL installations that might use non-default DateStyle
270       settings, DateStyle should be set to ISO before using COPY TO. It is
271       also a good idea to avoid dumping data with IntervalStyle set to
272       sql_standard, because negative interval values might be misinterpreted
273       by a server that has a different setting for IntervalStyle.
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275       Input data is interpreted according to ENCODING option or the current
276       client encoding, and output data is encoded in ENCODING or the current
277       client encoding, even if the data does not pass through the client but
278       is read from or written to a file directly by the server.
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280       COPY stops operation at the first error. This should not lead to
281       problems in the event of a COPY TO, but the target table will already
282       have received earlier rows in a COPY FROM. These rows will not be
283       visible or accessible, but they still occupy disk space. This might
284       amount to a considerable amount of wasted disk space if the failure
285       happened well into a large copy operation. You might wish to invoke
286       VACUUM to recover the wasted space.
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288       FORCE_NULL and FORCE_NOT_NULL can be used simultaneously on the same
289       column. This results in converting quoted null strings to null values
290       and unquoted null strings to empty strings.
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FILE FORMATS

293   Text Format
294       When the text format is used, the data read or written is a text file
295       with one line per table row. Columns in a row are separated by the
296       delimiter character. The column values themselves are strings generated
297       by the output function, or acceptable to the input function, of each
298       attribute's data type. The specified null string is used in place of
299       columns that are null.  COPY FROM will raise an error if any line of
300       the input file contains more or fewer columns than are expected.
301
302       End of data can be represented by a single line containing just
303       backslash-period (\.). An end-of-data marker is not necessary when
304       reading from a file, since the end of file serves perfectly well; it is
305       needed only when copying data to or from client applications using
306       pre-3.0 client protocol.
307
308       Backslash characters (\) can be used in the COPY data to quote data
309       characters that might otherwise be taken as row or column delimiters.
310       In particular, the following characters must be preceded by a backslash
311       if they appear as part of a column value: backslash itself, newline,
312       carriage return, and the current delimiter character.
313
314       The specified null string is sent by COPY TO without adding any
315       backslashes; conversely, COPY FROM matches the input against the null
316       string before removing backslashes. Therefore, a null string such as \N
317       cannot be confused with the actual data value \N (which would be
318       represented as \\N).
319
320       The following special backslash sequences are recognized by COPY FROM:
321
322       ┌─────────┬────────────────────────────┐
323Sequence Represents                 
324       ├─────────┼────────────────────────────┤
325       │\b       │ Backspace (ASCII 8)        │
326       ├─────────┼────────────────────────────┤
327       │\f       │ Form feed (ASCII 12)       │
328       ├─────────┼────────────────────────────┤
329       │\n       │ Newline (ASCII 10)         │
330       ├─────────┼────────────────────────────┤
331       │\r       │ Carriage return (ASCII 13) │
332       ├─────────┼────────────────────────────┤
333       │\t       │ Tab (ASCII 9)              │
334       ├─────────┼────────────────────────────┤
335       │\v       │ Vertical tab (ASCII 11)    │
336       ├─────────┼────────────────────────────┤
337       │\digits  │ Backslash followed by one  │
338       │         │ to three octal digits      │
339       │         │ specifies                  │
340       │         │        the character with  │
341       │         │ that numeric code          │
342       ├─────────┼────────────────────────────┤
343       │\xdigits │ Backslash x followed by    │
344       │         │ one or two hex digits      │
345       │         │ specifies                  │
346       │         │        the character with  │
347       │         │ that numeric code          │
348       └─────────┴────────────────────────────┘
349       Presently, COPY TO will never emit an octal or hex-digits backslash
350       sequence, but it does use the other sequences listed above for those
351       control characters.
352
353       Any other backslashed character that is not mentioned in the above
354       table will be taken to represent itself. However, beware of adding
355       backslashes unnecessarily, since that might accidentally produce a
356       string matching the end-of-data marker (\.) or the null string (\N by
357       default). These strings will be recognized before any other backslash
358       processing is done.
359
360       It is strongly recommended that applications generating COPY data
361       convert data newlines and carriage returns to the \n and \r sequences
362       respectively. At present it is possible to represent a data carriage
363       return by a backslash and carriage return, and to represent a data
364       newline by a backslash and newline. However, these representations
365       might not be accepted in future releases. They are also highly
366       vulnerable to corruption if the COPY file is transferred across
367       different machines (for example, from Unix to Windows or vice versa).
368
369       COPY TO will terminate each row with a Unix-style newline (“\n”).
370       Servers running on Microsoft Windows instead output carriage
371       return/newline (“\r\n”), but only for COPY to a server file; for
372       consistency across platforms, COPY TO STDOUT always sends “\n”
373       regardless of server platform.  COPY FROM can handle lines ending with
374       newlines, carriage returns, or carriage return/newlines. To reduce the
375       risk of error due to un-backslashed newlines or carriage returns that
376       were meant as data, COPY FROM will complain if the line endings in the
377       input are not all alike.
378
379   CSV Format
380       This format option is used for importing and exporting the Comma
381       Separated Value (CSV) file format used by many other programs, such as
382       spreadsheets. Instead of the escaping rules used by PostgreSQL's
383       standard text format, it produces and recognizes the common CSV
384       escaping mechanism.
385
386       The values in each record are separated by the DELIMITER character. If
387       the value contains the delimiter character, the QUOTE character, the
388       NULL string, a carriage return, or line feed character, then the whole
389       value is prefixed and suffixed by the QUOTE character, and any
390       occurrence within the value of a QUOTE character or the ESCAPE
391       character is preceded by the escape character. You can also use
392       FORCE_QUOTE to force quotes when outputting non-NULL values in specific
393       columns.
394
395       The CSV format has no standard way to distinguish a NULL value from an
396       empty string.  PostgreSQL's COPY handles this by quoting. A NULL is
397       output as the NULL parameter string and is not quoted, while a non-NULL
398       value matching the NULL parameter string is quoted. For example, with
399       the default settings, a NULL is written as an unquoted empty string,
400       while an empty string data value is written with double quotes ("").
401       Reading values follows similar rules. You can use FORCE_NOT_NULL to
402       prevent NULL input comparisons for specific columns. You can also use
403       FORCE_NULL to convert quoted null string data values to NULL.
404
405       Because backslash is not a special character in the CSV format, \., the
406       end-of-data marker, could also appear as a data value. To avoid any
407       misinterpretation, a \.  data value appearing as a lone entry on a line
408       is automatically quoted on output, and on input, if quoted, is not
409       interpreted as the end-of-data marker. If you are loading a file
410       created by another application that has a single unquoted column and
411       might have a value of \., you might need to quote that value in the
412       input file.
413
414           Note
415           In CSV format, all characters are significant. A quoted value
416           surrounded by white space, or any characters other than DELIMITER,
417           will include those characters. This can cause errors if you import
418           data from a system that pads CSV lines with white space out to some
419           fixed width. If such a situation arises you might need to
420           preprocess the CSV file to remove the trailing white space, before
421           importing the data into PostgreSQL.
422
423           Note
424           CSV format will both recognize and produce CSV files with quoted
425           values containing embedded carriage returns and line feeds. Thus
426           the files are not strictly one line per table row like text-format
427           files.
428
429           Note
430           Many programs produce strange and occasionally perverse CSV files,
431           so the file format is more a convention than a standard. Thus you
432           might encounter some files that cannot be imported using this
433           mechanism, and COPY might produce files that other programs cannot
434           process.
435
436   Binary Format
437       The binary format option causes all data to be stored/read as binary
438       format rather than as text. It is somewhat faster than the text and CSV
439       formats, but a binary-format file is less portable across machine
440       architectures and PostgreSQL versions. Also, the binary format is very
441       data type specific; for example it will not work to output binary data
442       from a smallint column and read it into an integer column, even though
443       that would work fine in text format.
444
445       The binary file format consists of a file header, zero or more tuples
446       containing the row data, and a file trailer. Headers and data are in
447       network byte order.
448
449           Note
450           PostgreSQL releases before 7.4 used a different binary file format.
451
452       File Header
453           The file header consists of 15 bytes of fixed fields, followed by a
454           variable-length header extension area. The fixed fields are:
455
456           Signature
457               11-byte sequence PGCOPY\n\377\r\n\0 — note that the zero byte
458               is a required part of the signature. (The signature is designed
459               to allow easy identification of files that have been munged by
460               a non-8-bit-clean transfer. This signature will be changed by
461               end-of-line-translation filters, dropped zero bytes, dropped
462               high bits, or parity changes.)
463
464           Flags field
465               32-bit integer bit mask to denote important aspects of the file
466               format. Bits are numbered from 0 (LSB) to 31 (MSB). Note that
467               this field is stored in network byte order (most significant
468               byte first), as are all the integer fields used in the file
469               format. Bits 16–31 are reserved to denote critical file format
470               issues; a reader should abort if it finds an unexpected bit set
471               in this range. Bits 0–15 are reserved to signal
472               backwards-compatible format issues; a reader should simply
473               ignore any unexpected bits set in this range. Currently only
474               one flag bit is defined, and the rest must be zero:
475
476               Bit 16
477                   If 1, OIDs are included in the data; if 0, not. Oid system
478                   columns are not supported in PostgreSQL anymore, but the
479                   format still contains the indicator.
480
481           Header extension area length
482               32-bit integer, length in bytes of remainder of header, not
483               including self. Currently, this is zero, and the first tuple
484               follows immediately. Future changes to the format might allow
485               additional data to be present in the header. A reader should
486               silently skip over any header extension data it does not know
487               what to do with.
488
489           The header extension area is envisioned to contain a sequence of
490           self-identifying chunks. The flags field is not intended to tell
491           readers what is in the extension area. Specific design of header
492           extension contents is left for a later release.
493
494           This design allows for both backwards-compatible header additions
495           (add header extension chunks, or set low-order flag bits) and
496           non-backwards-compatible changes (set high-order flag bits to
497           signal such changes, and add supporting data to the extension area
498           if needed).
499
500       Tuples
501           Each tuple begins with a 16-bit integer count of the number of
502           fields in the tuple. (Presently, all tuples in a table will have
503           the same count, but that might not always be true.) Then, repeated
504           for each field in the tuple, there is a 32-bit length word followed
505           by that many bytes of field data. (The length word does not include
506           itself, and can be zero.) As a special case, -1 indicates a NULL
507           field value. No value bytes follow in the NULL case.
508
509           There is no alignment padding or any other extra data between
510           fields.
511
512           Presently, all data values in a binary-format file are assumed to
513           be in binary format (format code one). It is anticipated that a
514           future extension might add a header field that allows per-column
515           format codes to be specified.
516
517           To determine the appropriate binary format for the actual tuple
518           data you should consult the PostgreSQL source, in particular the
519           *send and *recv functions for each column's data type (typically
520           these functions are found in the src/backend/utils/adt/ directory
521           of the source distribution).
522
523           If OIDs are included in the file, the OID field immediately follows
524           the field-count word. It is a normal field except that it's not
525           included in the field-count. Note that oid system columns are not
526           supported in current versions of PostgreSQL.
527
528       File Trailer
529           The file trailer consists of a 16-bit integer word containing -1.
530           This is easily distinguished from a tuple's field-count word.
531
532           A reader should report an error if a field-count word is neither -1
533           nor the expected number of columns. This provides an extra check
534           against somehow getting out of sync with the data.
535

EXAMPLES

537       The following example copies a table to the client using the vertical
538       bar (|) as the field delimiter:
539
540           COPY country TO STDOUT (DELIMITER '|');
541
542       To copy data from a file into the country table:
543
544           COPY country FROM '/usr1/proj/bray/sql/country_data';
545
546       To copy into a file just the countries whose names start with 'A':
547
548           COPY (SELECT * FROM country WHERE country_name LIKE 'A%') TO '/usr1/proj/bray/sql/a_list_countries.copy';
549
550       To copy into a compressed file, you can pipe the output through an
551       external compression program:
552
553           COPY country TO PROGRAM 'gzip > /usr1/proj/bray/sql/country_data.gz';
554
555       Here is a sample of data suitable for copying into a table from STDIN:
556
557           AF      AFGHANISTAN
558           AL      ALBANIA
559           DZ      ALGERIA
560           ZM      ZAMBIA
561           ZW      ZIMBABWE
562
563       Note that the white space on each line is actually a tab character.
564
565       The following is the same data, output in binary format. The data is
566       shown after filtering through the Unix utility od -c. The table has
567       three columns; the first has type char(2), the second has type text,
568       and the third has type integer. All the rows have a null value in the
569       third column.
570
571           0000000   P   G   C   O   P   Y  \n 377  \r  \n  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0
572           0000020  \0  \0  \0  \0 003  \0  \0  \0 002   A   F  \0  \0  \0 013   A
573           0000040   F   G   H   A   N   I   S   T   A   N 377 377 377 377  \0 003
574           0000060  \0  \0  \0 002   A   L  \0  \0  \0 007   A   L   B   A   N   I
575           0000100   A 377 377 377 377  \0 003  \0  \0  \0 002   D   Z  \0  \0  \0
576           0000120 007   A   L   G   E   R   I   A 377 377 377 377  \0 003  \0  \0
577           0000140  \0 002   Z   M  \0  \0  \0 006   Z   A   M   B   I   A 377 377
578           0000160 377 377  \0 003  \0  \0  \0 002   Z   W  \0  \0  \0  \b   Z   I
579           0000200   M   B   A   B   W   E 377 377 377 377 377 377
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COMPATIBILITY

582       There is no COPY statement in the SQL standard.
583
584       The following syntax was used before PostgreSQL version 9.0 and is
585       still supported:
586
587           COPY table_name [ ( column_name [, ...] ) ]
588               FROM { 'filename' | STDIN }
589               [ [ WITH ]
590                     [ BINARY ]
591                     [ DELIMITER [ AS ] 'delimiter_character' ]
592                     [ NULL [ AS ] 'null_string' ]
593                     [ CSV [ HEADER ]
594                           [ QUOTE [ AS ] 'quote_character' ]
595                           [ ESCAPE [ AS ] 'escape_character' ]
596                           [ FORCE NOT NULL column_name [, ...] ] ] ]
597
598           COPY { table_name [ ( column_name [, ...] ) ] | ( query ) }
599               TO { 'filename' | STDOUT }
600               [ [ WITH ]
601                     [ BINARY ]
602                     [ DELIMITER [ AS ] 'delimiter_character' ]
603                     [ NULL [ AS ] 'null_string' ]
604                     [ CSV [ HEADER ]
605                           [ QUOTE [ AS ] 'quote_character' ]
606                           [ ESCAPE [ AS ] 'escape_character' ]
607                           [ FORCE QUOTE { column_name [, ...] | * } ] ] ]
608
609       Note that in this syntax, BINARY and CSV are treated as independent
610       keywords, not as arguments of a FORMAT option.
611
612       The following syntax was used before PostgreSQL version 7.3 and is
613       still supported:
614
615           COPY [ BINARY ] table_name
616               FROM { 'filename' | STDIN }
617               [ [USING] DELIMITERS 'delimiter_character' ]
618               [ WITH NULL AS 'null_string' ]
619
620           COPY [ BINARY ] table_name
621               TO { 'filename' | STDOUT }
622               [ [USING] DELIMITERS 'delimiter_character' ]
623               [ WITH NULL AS 'null_string' ]
624
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628PostgreSQL 13.4                      2021                              COPY(7)
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