PQ-COPY-DEPRECATED"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">34.10.3. Obsolete Functions for <code class="command">COPY</code> <a href="#LIBPQ-COPY-DEPRECATED" class="id_link">#</a></h3></div></div></div><p>
    These functions represent older methods of handling <code class="command">COPY</code>.
    Although they still work, they are deprecated due to poor error handling,
    inconvenient methods of detecting end-of-data, and lack of support for binary
    or nonblocking transfers.
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