Re: How to give \COPY inside a function

On 08/16/11 10:03 PM, Siva Palanisamy wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I would like to add that I was not given the super user privilege to perform COPY command. If so, I wouldn't see \COPY command at all! Could you please guide me briefly on how to use \COPY command for my usage to write the output into a .CSV file inside a function?

a postgres function can not write a file, but it can execute a COPY ....
TO STDOUT ...; without superuser privilege.

your invoking application program would use whatever function in its
Postgres binding to read this 'stdout' data (its not really stdout),
like in C/C++ with libpq.so, you would use PQgetCopyData
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-copy.html#LIBPQ-COPY-RECEIVE
to receive this data stream, which you would write to a file via your
application

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