Re: COPY BINARY is broken...

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: COPY BINARY is broken...
Date: 2000-12-10 20:52:16
Message-ID: 200012102052.PAA03438@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > Its handling of nulls is bizarre, too. I'm thinking this might be a
> > good time to abandon backwards compatibility and switch to a format
> > that's a little easier to read and write. Does anyone have an opinion
> > pro or con about that?
>
> BINARY COPY scared the bejeezus out of me, anyone using the interface
> is asking for trouble and supporting it seems like a nightmare, I
> would rip it out.

Tom, just keep in mind that the format is documented in copy.sgml.

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