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pg_copy_to
(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)
pg_copy_to — Copy a table to an array
Description
pg_copy_to
( resource $connection
, string $table_name
[, string $delimiter
[, string $null_as
]] ) : array
pg_copy_to() copies a table to an array. It
issues COPY TO
SQL command internally to
retrieve records.
Parameters
connection
- PostgreSQL database connection resource.
table_name
- Name of the table from which to copy the data into
rows
. delimiter
- The token that separates values for each field in each element of
rows
. Default isTAB
. null_as
- How SQL
NULL
values are represented in therows
. Default is \N ("\\N").
Return Values
An array with one element for each line of COPY
data.
It returns FALSE
on failure.
Examples
Example #1 pg_copy_to() example
<?php $db = pg_connect("dbname=publisher") or die("Could not connect"); $rows = pg_copy_to($db, $table_name); pg_query($db, "DELETE FROM $table_name"); pg_copy_from($db, $table_name, $rows);?>