Re: WIP patch: add (PRE|POST)PROCESSOR options to COPY

OK I will redesign the function.

Thanks everyone for the advice!

Best regards,
Etsuro Fujita

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 2:27 AM
> To: Dimitri Fontaine
> Cc: Tom Lane; Etsuro Fujita; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] WIP patch: add (PRE|POST)PROCESSOR options to COPY
>
>
> On 09/13/2012 01:20 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> > Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> I think it would be a lot better if this were designed so that the
> >> processor programs executed on client side. Which would probably make
> >> it not a COPY patch at all, but something in psql.
> > And pgloader, which already has a part of that feature with the per
> > column reformating facility.
> >
>
> Yeah, I'd be inclined to say that pre/post processing of this kind is
> really a job for specialized clients.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>