Re: generic copy options

2009/9/17 Emmanuel Cecchet <manu(at)asterdata(dot)com>:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
>>> While I understand the need for the server to still support the syntax,
>>> is it necessary for newer version of psql to support the old syntax?
>>>
>>
>> psql has MORE need to support old syntax than the backend does, because
>> it's supposed to work against old servers.
>>
>
> Well, I wonder how many users just upgrade psql vs upgrade the server. I was
> thinking that when users perform a database upgrade their application often
> remain the same and therefore the server needs to support the old syntax.
> Unless you are upgrading a machine where a bunch of psql-based scripts are
> running to update various remote Postgres instances with older versions, I
> would guess that it is unlikely that someone is going to upgrade psql and
> keep the old instance of the server on the same machine.
> I just wonder how many users are using a single psql to manage multiple
> server instances of different older versions.

What application, that use current copy format for fast data import? I
thing, so doing incompatible changes of copy statement syntax is very
bad idea.

regards
Pavel Stehule

>>
>> I wonder though if we couldn't simplify matters.  Offhand it seems to me
>> that psql doesn't need to validate the command's syntax fully.  All it
>> really needs to do is find the target filename and replace it with
>> STDIN/STDOUT.  Could we have it just treat the remainder of the line
>> literally, and not worry about the details of what the options might be?
>> Let the backend worry about throwing an error if they're bad.
>>
>
> As the only difference between \copy and copy seems to be the ability to
> stream the file from the client, I guess that everything else should be sent
> as is to the server as you suggest. I'll come with a patch for that today.
>
> Emmanuel
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