Re: COPY FROM STDIN

On 1/4/16 12:18 PM, Luke Coldiron wrote:
> Is there a way to achieve the performance of the COPY FROM STDIN command
> within a C extension function connected to the db connection that called
> the C function? I have text that I would like to receive as input to a C
> function that contains many COPY command statements in the file that
> would be parsed similar to how psql would handle the file but I don't
> want to shell out to psql as I need to do all of this work on the db
> connection that the function was called from as there are other commands
> that I need to perform as well after before and after handling the COPY
> commands on this same connection. I would like the unit of work to be
> all or nothing and have the performance of the COPY FROM STDIN command
> and not break things out into SELECT INTO or INSERT statements for
> performance.
>
> Ideally I would like to be able to attach to the calling db connection
> via SPI_connect() and then use the libpq library to issue the copy
> commands via PQputCopyData, PQputCopyEnd.

C functions can use SPI, so I'm not sure what the issue is?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/spi.html

(BTW, you'll want to scroll to the bottom of that page...)
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