Re: Ragged CSV import

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Ragged CSV import
Date: 2009-09-10 14:11:14
Message-ID: 23084.1252591874@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Hmm... in fact, what if we just implemented COPY returning text[] for
> a first cut, and forget making it act like a table source for now.
> Then you could COPY to a temp table (with a text[] column) and select
> from there. There's really two separate features here: COPY producing
> text[] rather than a record type, and COPY being embeddable in some
> larger query.

That might be a reasonable way-station ...

regards, tom lane

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