Re: Idea for making COPY data Microsoft-proof

At 09:22 PM 2/10/02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>Comments? Anyone see a better way?
>

Can you do something akin to what you did with the binary output - but in
this case allow for no details. This would be *great* for column order
problems. eg,

COPY <table> TO STDOUT WITH HEADER;

or somesuch. This would result in two extra lines at the start:

<Keywords indocating assumptions and translations (eg. CRLF_TO_LF) etc.
{<col name>...}
...NORMAL DATA HERE...

Similary,

COPY <table> FROM STDIN WITH HEADER;

Would use the header to work out how to translate CRLF etc, as well as
allow COPY to be used to load different table definitions.

How does this sound?

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