Re: can a linux program, running on the client side, generate data to load a temp table ?

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: dfgpostgres <dfgpostgres3(at)gmail(dot)com>, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: can a linux program, running on the client side, generate data to load a temp table ?
Date: 2026-06-19 14:48:19
Message-ID: 3efe0707-d61b-4182-80c8-4c68e723418a@aklaver.com
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On 6/19/26 7:38 AM, dfgpostgres wrote:
> >> psql's "\copy ... from program" might help you.
> Ya, I've used \copy for copying data in the past.  But if I'm not
> mistaken, the "\copy... from program" runs on the server side.  If I'm
> wrong about that, if there's a client side version of this, I'm all
> ears !  And FWIW, a future release that has this would be great !

It is client side, but is only available in the the psql client:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-psql.html

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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com

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