Re: proposal: psql \setfileref

On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 06:12:16PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
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> 2016-10-09 17:27 GMT+02:00 Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>:
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> here is new update - some mentioned issues are fixed + regress
> tests and docs
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> This might tie into some work I'm doing. Is there any way these filerefs
> could be used as the inline portion of a COPY command?
> i.e. like this:
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> COPY my_table FROM STDIN
> :file_ref
> \.
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> I understand, but I am not sure how difficult implementation it is. This part
> (COPY input) doesn't support parametrization - and parametrization can have a
> negative performance impact.

And it would need to be \:file_ref in COPY so real data doesn't trigger
it.

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