Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add tests to dblink covering use of COPY TO FUNCTION

From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: "Jeff Davis" <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Daniel Farina" <drfarina(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Hannu Krosing" <hannu(at)krosing(dot)net>, "Greg Smith" <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Daniel Farina" <dfarina(at)truviso(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add tests to dblink covering use of COPY TO FUNCTION
Date: 2009-11-26 05:35:42
Message-ID: 51560.76.125.11.227.1259213742.squirrel@dunslane.net
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On Wed, November 25, 2009 3:56 pm, Jeff Davis wrote:
>
> I worry that we're getting further away from the original problem. Let's
> allow functions to get the bytes of data from a COPY, like the original
> proposal. I am not sure COPY is the best mechanism to move records
> around when INSERT ... SELECT already does that.
>

I am not at all sure I think that's a good idea, though. We have
pg_read_file() for getting raw bytes from files. Building that into COPY
does not strike me as a good fit.

cheers

andrew

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