Re: A little COPY speedup

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A little COPY speedup
Date: 2007-03-02 19:10:43
Message-ID: 45E876B3.1020100@dunslane.net
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Gregory Stark wrote:
>
>
> The only file formats I ever wanted when I was doing this kind of stuff is tab
> separated, all the others (comma separated and (egads) *pipe* separated?!) are
> just disasters.
>
>

Others of us have to operate in a world where we don't get to choose the
format of data we receive. Having Postgres work with common data
interchange formats is a Good Thing (tm).

(I also have my own opinion of the disutility of tab as a separator.)

cheers

andrew

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