From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe |
Date: | 2006-05-31 17:17:35 |
Message-ID: | 447DCFAF.4070308@commandprompt.com |
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> I dislike putting this into the backend precisely because it's trying to
> impose a one-size-fits-all compression solution. Someone might wish to
> use bzip2 instead of gzip, for instance, or tweak the compression level
> options of gzip. It's trivial for the user to do that if the
> compression program is separate, not trivial at all if it's wired into
> COPY. Also, a pipe feature would have uses unrelated to compression,
> such as on-the-fly analysis or generation of data.
It seems that it would be better to have the options within pg_dump
which would give the most flexibility.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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