Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> (One of the issues that'd have to be addressed to allow a table source >> syntax is whether it's sane to allow multiple COPY FROM STDIN in a >> single query. If so, how does it work; if not, how do we prevent it?)
> I don't see why it shouldn't work. I see that copy.c now looks like it's > reentrant, unlike the bad days of old. Could we make each COPY target > behave like an SRF, stashing its data in a tuplestore? The first question is what is the wire-protocol definition. In particular, how would the client know what order to send the COPY datasets in, if a single query might include multiple COPY FROM STDIN segments? Another point is that we surely don't want the implementation to force use of a tuplestore all the time, so I'm not sure I buy that we can prevent interleaving of multiple datasets on the wire that way. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers