Re: raw output from copy

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 4:45 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> here is cleaned/finished previous implementation of RAW_TEXT/RAW_BINARY
> formats for COPY statements.
>
> The RAW with text formats means unescaped data, but with correct encoding -
> input/output is realised with input/output function. RAW binary means
> content produced/received by sending/received functions.
>
> Now both directions (input/output) working well
>
> Some examples of expected usage:
>
> copy (select xmlelement(name foo, 'hello')) to stdout (format raw_binary,
> encoding 'latin2');
>
> create table avatars(id serial, picture bytea);
> \copy avatars(picture) from ~/images/foo.jpg (format raw_binary);
> select lastval();
>
> create table doc(id serial, txt text);
> \copy doc(txt) from ~/files/aaa.txt (format raw_text, encoding 'latin2');
> select lastval();

As much as I know you and some other people would like it to be
otherwise, this patch clearly does not have a sufficient degree of
consensus to justify committing it to PostgreSQL 9.6. I'm marking it
Returned with Feedback.

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