Re: COPY as a set returning function

From: Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: COPY as a set returning function
Date: 2017-01-25 18:23:53
Message-ID: CADkLM=ecT6kp+ZKz7M3zgj=LjjAsuJqYpVppb=z=N19SMouC4Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:10 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:23:23PM -0500, Corey Huinker wrote:
> >
> > Feel free to mark it returned as feedback. The concept didn't
> > generate as much enthusiasm as I had hoped, so I think the right
> > thing to do now is scale it back to a patch that makes
> > CopyFromRawFields() externally visible so that extensions can use
> > them.
>
> You're getting enthusiasm in the form of these reviews and suggestions
> for improvement. That it doesn't always happen immediately is a
> byproduct of the scarcity of developer time and the sheer volume of
> things to which people need to pay attention.

True about that. I was referring to "ooh! I need that!"-type interest. I'll
proceed, keeping in mind that there's a fallback position of just making
some of the guts of COPY available to be called by extensions like was done
for file_fdw.

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