Re: COPY enhancements

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Emmanuel Cecchet <manu(at)asterdata(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: COPY enhancements
Date: 2009-09-11 16:09:26
Message-ID: 603c8f070909110909h7d94ac02rd60433cef0385880@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> While I'm at least as big a fan of generic options as the next person,
>> syntax is cheap.
>
> No, it *isn't* cheap.  Particularly not for COPY, for which we need an
> ad-hoc parser in psql.

:-( That's definitely a complication, although it seems to me it will
need substantial work no matter what option we decide on.

...Robert

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