Re: COPY to/from non-local file

Well, for Ruby there are two Postgres drivers, a native compiled one I
run in Linux, and a pure Ruby one that I use in Windows. The PGconn
object in the Windows version doesn't seem to offer the methods putline,
readline or endcopy. The Linux version does, but since I do development
in both Linux and Windows, this is
not a solution.

It would have been great to have a COPY to/from string functionality.
I'm sure there's a rationale for not having that. Would it be foolish to
try to implement that? In my opinion, it would be cleaner design than
having to mess with getline/putline or file transmission.

Thanks also Enrico, your idea is good.

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 02:54:05PM -0400, Jaime Silvela wrote:
>
>> The problem is that the getline/readline interface, which does exist for
>> Ruby, doesn't seem to work so well, and anyway operates line by line; I
>> would have preferred to just hand a file descriptor and be done with it.
>>
>
> Hrm, in what sense doesn't it work well? Line-by-line means
> record-by-record. And writing a function to take an fd and do the work
> would be straightforward, or do you mean something else?
>
> Do you have any suggestions for improvement?
>
> Have a nice day,
>

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