Re: Nasty, propagating POLA violation in COPY CSV HEADER

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Nasty, propagating POLA violation in COPY CSV HEADER
Date: 2012-06-20 15:47:14
Message-ID: 27081.1340207234@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> Rather than being totally ignored in the COPY OUT (CSV HEADER) case,
> the header line in should be parsed to establish which columns are
> where and rearranging the output if needed.

This is not "fix a POLA violation". This is a non-backwards-compatible
new feature, which would have to have a switch to turn it on.

regards, tom lane

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