On 02/10/2018 04:38 PM, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Saturday, February 10, 2018, Nicolas Paris <nipari...@gmail.com > <mailto: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 > <https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.8.2/api/c/index.html>) > - parquet (c++ writer=https://github.com/apache/parquet-cpp > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-cpp>) > - orc (all writers=https://github.com/apache/orc > <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. >
I don't think make this extensible by an extension (i.e. the formats supported by COPY are hard-coded in core). But I agree that if we are to add multiple new formats, it'd be nice to allow doing that in extension. regards -- Tomas Vondra http://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
