Re: raw output from copy

Hello Pavel.

I looked through the patch. Sources are OK. However I didn't find any docs
and test cases. Would you please provide me with short description on this
feature and why it is important. Because I didn't manage to find the old
Andrew Dunstan's post either.

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> I wrote a prototype of this patch, and it works well
>
> postgres=# set client_encoding to 'latin2';
> SET
> Time: 1.488 ms
> postgres=# \copy (select xmlelement(name xx, d) from d) to ~/d.xml (format
> 'raw')
> COPY 1
> Time: 1.108 ms
> postgres=# copy (select xmlelement(name xx, d) from d) to stdout (format
> 'raw') ;
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="LATIN2"?><xx>příliš žluťoučký kůň</xx>Time:
> 1.000 ms
>
> Regards
>
> Pavel
>
> 2015-04-09 20:48 GMT+02:00 Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> This thread was finished without real work. I have a real use case -
>> export XML doc in non utf8 encoding.
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/16174.1319228878@sss.pgh.pa.us
>>
>> I propose to implement new format option "RAW" like Tom proposed.
>>
>> It requires only one row, one column result - and result is just raw
>> binary data without size.
>>
>> Objections? Ideas?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Pavel
>>
>
>
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