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 00:41:04
Message-ID: 87oeqty8gv.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> I could go with that too. The question here is do we have any popular
> use-cases that aren't solved by that extension, but could be solved by
> simple user-level data formatting functions? I'm not real eager to add
> such a feature as an "if we build it they will come" speculation, but
> if anyone can point to solid use-cases besides handling CSV, then it
> probably is worth doing.

(I can't believe I'm saying this, but) It seems like xml output would be the
use case you're looking for.

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greg

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