Re: [PATCH] COPY .. COMPRESSED

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
>> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
>> > I do like the idea of a generalized answer which just runs a
>> > user-provided command on the server but that's always going to require
>> > superuser privileges.
>>
>> The design that was being kicked around allowed pipes to be used on the
>> client side too, ie \copy foo to '| gzip ...'. That form would not
>> require any special privileges, and might be thought preferable for
>> another reason too: it offloads the work from the server.
>
> It's a different use-case which, imv, is really already trivially
> covered:
>
> psql -c 'COPY foo TO STDOUT;' | gzip > myfile.gz
>
> While there is no option currently for having the server do the
> compression before sending the data over the wire.

+1.

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