Re: How to just "link" to some data feed

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
Cc: Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: How to just "link" to some data feed
Date: 2008-06-04 04:16:22
Message-ID: 16533.1212552982@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> writes:
> That's essentially the same as the COPY you quoted in your original
> email, isn't it? So.. what exactly is it you want to do that COPY
> doesn't do?

The OP seems to be laboring under the delusion that we might consider
storing "live" data in a flat text file. I'd be interested to know how
such a representation could handle MVCC updates, or indexing ... even
presuming that it was a good idea for any other reason, which he has not
provided.

> Anyway, it's not really JDBC related.

Definitely not.

regards, tom lane

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