Re: WIP patch: add (PRE|POST)PROCESSOR options to COPY

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Etsuro Fujita <fujita(dot)etsuro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Craig Ringer <ringerc(at)ringerc(dot)id(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WIP patch: add (PRE|POST)PROCESSOR options to COPY
Date: 2012-11-14 16:36:02
Message-ID: CA+U5nM+KYH2UfZHdwiLoKw4p-vh_e-f5aO9x0URw0CZFUuJkcg@mail.gmail.com
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On 14 November 2012 15:09, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> What about further extending the COPY IN syntax to the following?
>
> COPY table_name FROM 'progname [ option, ... ]' WITH ...
>
> I'd just like to execute
>
> COPY vmstat_table FROM 'vmstat' WITH ...

If we go ahead with this, I think it needs additional keyword to
indicate that we will execute the file rather than read from it. I
don't think we should rely on whether the file is executable or not to
determine how we should treat it.

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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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