On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > pgsql-hackers had some preliminary discussions a couple months back > on refactoring COPY to allow things like this --- see the thread > starting here: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg00486.php > While I don't think we arrived at any final decisions, I would like > to know how this design fits in with what was discussed then.
This seems to be about importing/ingress, whereas this patch is about exporting/egress...it is an interesting question on how much parsing to do before on the ingress side before handing a row to a function though, should we try to make these kinds of operations a bit more symmetrical. I did consider refactoring COPY, but since it's never clear when we start a feature whether it is going to manifest itself as a good upstream candidate we default to trying to make future merges with Postgres tractable I did not take on such a large and artistic task. fdr -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
