Document that the COPY delimiter must be an ASCII byte, rather than a

multi-byte value.  It can also be a single-byte encoded character if
the client and server versions match.

Backpatch to 8.2.X.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
index 7eebfb941c20d063b90452f8b843c647ff587869..24d3faf5d696a2ffeef8b3d8c708688a2c05b1e8 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ COPY { <replaceable class="parameter">tablename</replaceable> [ ( <replaceable c
     <term><replaceable class="parameter">delimiter</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      The single character that separates columns within each row
+      The single ASCII character that separates columns within each row
       (line) of the file.  The default is a tab character in text mode,
       a comma in <literal>CSV</> mode.
      </para>