On Saturday, February 10, 2018, Nicolas Paris <nipari...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello > > I d'found useful to be able to import/export from postgres to those modern > data > formats: > - avro (c writer=https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.8.2/api/c/index.html) > - parquet (c++ writer=https://github.com/apache/parquet-cpp) > - orc (all writers=https://github.com/apache/orc) > > Something like : > COPY table TO STDOUT ORC; > > Would be lovely. > > This would greatly enhance how postgres integrates in big-data ecosystem. > > It would be written "... with (format 'orc')" and your best bet would be to create an extension. I don't think that having such code in core (or contrib) is desirable. David J.