Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add tests to dblink covering use of COPY TO FUNCTION

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> You know how people complain about how new contributors are treated here?
>  Throwing out comments like this, that come off as belittling to other
> people's work, doesn't help.  All I was suggesting was that Dan wasn't
> developing this in complete isolation from the hackers community as Robert
> had feared, as will be obvious when we get to:

I still think it's better to have discussion on the mailing list than
elsewhere. But we're doing that now, so, good.

> As far as other past discussion here that might be relevant, this patch
> includes a direct change to gram.y to support the new syntax.  You've
> already suggested before that it might be time to update COPY the same way
> EXPLAIN and now VACUUM have been overhauled to provide a more flexible
> options interface:
>  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg00616.php  This
> patch might be more fuel for that idea.

FWIW, Tom already committed a patch by Emmanuel and myself that did this.

...Robert