Re: COPY formatting

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: COPY formatting
Date: 2004-03-19 03:43:44
Message-ID: 87ish1y00f.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> Does that fall into the category of stuff that could be supported by the
> kind of API we're talking about? I should think that XML would need a
> much more global view of the data, not just line-by-line reformatting.

I saw it the other way around. The only reason I saw for writing code in COPY
directly was if it needed a more global view of the data. Any line-by-line
reformatting could just be done with a perl one-liner.

If it can't do that what's the advantage? Speed?

--
greg

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