Re: realtime data inserts

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 21:46, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> writes:
> > On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 11:00, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Have you thought about using COPY?
>
> > Generate a temporary file, and then system("COPY /tmp/foobar ...") ?
>
> No, copy from stdin. No need for a temp file.

But wouldn't that only work if the input stream is acceptable to
COPY ?

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