Re: COPY enhancements

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: COPY enhancements
Date: 2009-09-12 15:57:00
Message-ID: 6412.1252771020@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> At the same time, I think it's probably not a good thing that users who
> deal with very large amounts of data would be forced off the COPY fast
> path by a need for something like input support for non-rectangular
> data.

[ shrug... ] Everybody in the world is going to want their own little
problem to be handled in the fast path. And soon it won't be so fast
anymore. I think it is perfectly reasonable to insist that the fast
path is only for "clean" data import.

regards, tom lane

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Andrew Dunstan 2009-09-12 17:17:50 plperl returning setof foo[]
Previous Message Tom Lane 2009-09-12 15:53:35 Re: drop tablespace error: invalid argument