Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
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: 2006-05-31 16:35:00
Message-ID: 447DC5B4.4080407@pse-consulting.de
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Dave Page wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Andreas Pflug
>>Sent: 31 May 2006 16:41
>>Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe
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>>Andreas Pflug wrote:
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>>>Won't help too much, until gzip's output is piped back too, so a
>>>replacement for COPY .. TO STDOUT COMPRESSED would be
>>>COPY ... TO '| /bin/gzip |' STDOUT, to enable clients to
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>>receive the
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>>>reduced stuff.
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>>Forgot to mention:
>>COPY COMPRESSED was also meant to introduce a portable format that's
>>efficient for both text and binary data. Relying on some
>>external XYZzip
>>version seems not too portable to me.
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> It does have that advantage. Gzip and others are not particularly
> Windows friendly for example.

... as most windows programs are pipe agnostic.

Regards,
Andreas

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