Mladen Gogala <mgogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com> writes:
> Is the copy command using SQL or does it do its magic using some lower
> level mechanism? In short, my question is whether I can somehow use
> something like copy from a Perl script?
COPY to/from the client (as opposed to to/from a file) involves some
special protocol. If your Perl driver knows how to do COPY, the
answer is yes.
regards, tom lane