Re: raw output from copy

2016-03-31 8:34 GMT+02:00 Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:

> On 30 March 2016 at 00:19, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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>> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> > I tested COPY RAW on old psql clients - and it is working without any
>> > problem - so when the client uses same logic as psql, then it should to
>> > work. Sure, there can be differently implemented clients, but the COPY
>> > client side is usually simple - store stream to output.
>>
>> My point is precisely that I doubt all clients are that stupid about COPY.
>>
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> PgJDBC definitely isn't.
>
> Any changes really need to be tested against PgJDBC's CopyManager.
>

this patch doesn't break any old application. Accepting new feature depends
on binary method detection. PQbinaryTuples based clients should to support
COPY RAW* without problems, PQfformat() should to report unknown format.

Regards

Pavel

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