Re: COPY (query) TO file

Tom Lane wrote:

>Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
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>>PFC <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com> writes:
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>>>MySQL already does this for INSERT :
>>>INSERT INTO x (a,b) VALUES (1,2), (3,4), (5,6)...;
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>The above syntax is SQL-standard, so we ought to support it sometime,
>performance benefits or no. I agree it might be tricky to avoid eating
>an unreasonable amount of memory for a very long list in Postgres :-(
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>Supporting VALUES only in INSERT would be relatively trivial BTW,
>but the spec actually thinks it should be allowed as a <table spec>
>in FROM ...
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Can we just start with the simple case?

cheers

andrew