Re: generic copy options

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Emmanuel Cecchet <manu(at)asterdata(dot)com>
Cc: Emmanuel Cecchet <Emmanuel(dot)Cecchet(at)asterdata(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: generic copy options
Date: 2009-09-20 18:01:14
Message-ID: 24564.1253469674@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Emmanuel Cecchet <manu(at)asterdata(dot)com> writes:
> Here you will force every format to use the same set of options

How does this "force" any such thing?

> and if
> someone introduces a new option, you will have to modify all other
> formats to make sure they throw an error telling the user that this
> option is not supported.

Well, if we do it your way then we will instead need a collection of
code to throw errors for combinations like (xml on, csv_header on).
I don't really see any improvement there.

regards, tom lane

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