Re: Unexpectedly exposed COPY option: convert_selectively

Hello,

On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 3:19 AM Sugamoto Shinya <shinya34892(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> My preference is Option 1, since it’s the simplest change and, as far
> as I know, there are no user-facing issues today. Option 2 would be a
> backward-incompatible change (even if undocumented). Option 3 would
> require additional work to make it a supported and documented feature,
> and I’m not aware of a clear demand/use case yet.

For option 3, i don't see a use case other than one would want to have a
different option of selectively picking input fields to map them to a
subset of table columns, this is far from being similar to
convert_selectively implementation (as the first is more complex), so
option 1 seems like it.

> Regards,
> Shinya Sugamoto

Regards,
Ayoub