Re: Loading binary data into the database

> Adriaan Joubert <a(dot)joubert(at)albourne(dot)com> writes:
> > since 7.0.2 binary copy has been disabled, making
> > quite a few libpq functions superfluous
>
> Such as? IIRC, the reason we disabled it was precisely that there was
> no support on the client side. (What's worse, there's no support in
> the FE/BE protocol either. I don't see how you could have made this
> work...)
>
> Cross-machine binary copy is a dangerous thing anyway, since it opens
> you up to all sorts of compatibility problems. If your app is running
> on the same machine as the server, you can write data to a file and
> then send a command to do a binary copy from that file.

We disabled binary copy? Using \copy or COPY?

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