From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe |
Date: | 2006-06-04 00:12:05 |
Message-ID: | 200606040012.k540C5V29587@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > After re-reading what I just wrote to Andreas about how compression of
> > COPY data would be better done outside the backend than inside, it
> > struck me that we are missing a feature that's fairly common in Unix
> > programs. Perhaps COPY ought to have the ability to pipe its output
> > to a shell command, or read input from a shell command. Maybe something
> > like
> >
> > COPY mytable TO '| gzip >/home/tgl/mytable.dump.gz';
For use case, consider this:
COPY mytable TO '| rsh x(at)y(dot)com > test ';
so you can COPY to another server directly.
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