Re: Updated COPY CSV patch

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I don't agree about moving this to a client. It is too important for
> > that. Many admin apps and psql need this capability and having it in
> > a client just requires everyone to reinvent the wheel.
>
> So far the only need I've heard of is dumping the data to an
> appropriately formatted text file and reading it into some external
> application. That surely sounds like something a specialized client
> could handle.

But too many folks need this functionality, and if you create a client,
how do you access it from other computers. It is a logical extension
for COPY, I think.

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