Re: COPY formatting

Josh Berkus wrote:

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>Overall, I assert again that approaching this issue through COPY enhancements
>is really not the way to go. We should be looking at a client utility,
>like pg_import and pg_export. The primary purpose of COPY is bulk loads
>for backup/restore, and I'm against doing a lot of tinkering which might make
>it less efficient or introduce new issues into what's currently very
>reliable.
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That's not unreasonable. I floated my idea as an alternative to a much
more radical proposal. If we decided against it we should remove the
TODO item.

As against that, if we don't do this then I think we should embrace
these utility programs more, possibly bringing them into the distribution.

cheers

andrew