Re: [PATCH] COPY .. COMPRESSED

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] COPY .. COMPRESSED
Date: 2013-01-15 22:22:47
Message-ID: 20130115222247.GA27058@momjian.us
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:22:48PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Bruce Momjian (bruce(at)momjian(dot)us) wrote:
> > Well, COPY is super-user only, so it seems only useful for FDW, no? We
> > already have lots of user-configuration FDW commands, so I can see
> > adding this one too.
>
> COPY is most certainly not superuser-only.. COPY w/ popen, if that
> popen can call anything, would certainly have to be superuser-only.

COPY with a file name is super-user-only. I am unclear how you would
use STDIN/STDOUT in any meaningful way with binary data produced by
compression. I guess you could with libpq.

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