Syntax options: AS BINARY | AS CHARACTER VARYING | AS TEXT Specifies whether the file specified with the FILENAME clause contains these types of data: o BINARY Used to load unformatted data such as images and audio files. The contents are broken into 512 octet segments during INSERT. o CHARACTER VARYING Used to load text but with no terminator. The contents are written one line to a segment. o TEXT Used to load text, a terminator is added to each segment loaded. The contents are written one line to a segment with trailing terminators carriage return (CR) and line feed (LF).