On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:44 AM, Garick Hamlin <gham...@isc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> I wonder if there was a way to let COPY FROM detect or ignore headers > as appropriate and rather than cause silently result in headers being > added as data. > Not reliably > Maybe a blank line after the header line could prevent this confusion > No +1 for allowing HEADER with FORMAT text. It doesn't interfere with COPY and even if I were to agree that CSV format is the better one this seems like an unnecessary area to impose preferences. If TSV with Header meets someone's need providing a minimal (and consistent with expectations) syntax to accomplish that goal seems reasonable, as does the patch. David J.