diff --git a/dbmigration/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/dbmigration/IMassUploader.java b/dbmigration/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/dbmigration/IMassUploader.java
index 243474ebcfb1fc67ca7f4283f6e989f212655b74..8199461e930a71c020f5a26bca00f9505b0812c2 100644
--- a/dbmigration/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/dbmigration/IMassUploader.java
+++ b/dbmigration/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/dbmigration/IMassUploader.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import java.io.File;
 /**
  * Classes that implement this interface encapsulate mass uploading of tabular files to the database. The files to be
  * processed by implementations of this class are supposed to be <code>csv</code> files that can be uploaded to
- * exactly one table. They need to follow the naming convention <code>orderSpecifier::tableName.csv</code>. Here the
+ * exactly one table. They need to follow the naming convention <code>orderSpecifier=tableName.csv</code>. Here the
  * order specifier ensures that the dependency is right while the table name is the name of the table to upload the data
  * to.
  * 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ public interface IMassUploader
      * Upload the data from file <var>massUploadFile</var> to the database.
      * 
      * @param massUploadFile File to upload to the database, following the naming convention
-     *            <code>orderSpecifier::tableName.csv</code>.
+     *            <code>orderSpecifier=tableName.csv</code>.
      */
     public void performMassUpload(File massUploadFile);
 
diff --git a/dbmigration/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/dbmigration/PostgreSQLMassUploader.java b/dbmigration/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/dbmigration/PostgreSQLMassUploader.java
index d5002edd0e0fb080fe0cb30b462aea12f5551653..e18454d44bc48be091abbbacc16b5ce538ade8c3 100644
--- a/dbmigration/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/dbmigration/PostgreSQLMassUploader.java
+++ b/dbmigration/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/dbmigration/PostgreSQLMassUploader.java
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ public class PostgreSQLMassUploader implements IMassUploader
         try
         {
             final CopyManager copyManager = getPGConnection().getCopyAPI();
-            final String[] splitName = StringUtils.split(massUploadFile.getName(), "::");
+            final String[] splitName = StringUtils.split(massUploadFile.getName(), "=");
             assert splitName.length == 2;
             final String tableNameWithExtension = splitName[1];
             assert tableNameWithExtension.endsWith(".csv");