| From: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: A little COPY speedup |
| Date: | 2007-03-02 18:51:16 |
| Message-ID: | 873b4nqy1n.fsf@stark.xeocode.com |
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"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> Feedback from someone else looking to the problem last year. IIRC there
>> was a feeling that if we didn't have to search for delimiters the COPY
>> FROM input parsing could be easier.
>
> Of what use is the above comment? You have to parse the input into
> fields somehow.
Well those two requirements aren't inconsistent if you're using fixed-width
input text files. Not that I'm enamoured of such file formats, just saying.
The only file formats I ever wanted when I was doing this kind of stuff is tab
separated, all the others (comma separated and (egads) *pipe* separated?!) are
just disasters.
--
Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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