diff --git a/psycopg/cursor_type.c b/psycopg/cursor_type.c
index 91b5a72f..31023c0f 100644
--- a/psycopg/cursor_type.c
+++ b/psycopg/cursor_type.c
@@ -1346,7 +1346,7 @@ psyco_curs_copy_from(cursorObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwargs)
     const char *quote = "'";
 
     const char *command =
-        "COPY %s%s FROM stdin WITH DELIMITER AS %s NULL AS %s FORMAT AS CSV QUOTE AS %s";
+        "COPY %s%s FROM stdin WITH DELIMITER AS %s NULL AS %s QUOTE AS %s CSV";
 
     Py_ssize_t query_size;
     char *query = NULL;