autoshuffle and COPY -- a cautionary tale...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:01:31AM -0600, Steve Wiltsie wrote:
> > Took me almost *three hours* to figure out that the problem is that
> > COPY copies on an ordinal field basis, skipping undefined fields.  If
> > you have matched files, and you add fields in the middle of one, MAKE
> > SURE you add them to the other.
> 
> Yup!  I think it has always been that way.

And of course, it's documented; I'd just not been looking in that
direction.

Cheers,
-- jra
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