On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 00:35 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > On Wed, November 25, 2009 3:56 pm, Jeff Davis wrote: > > > > I worry that we're getting further away from the original problem. Let's > > allow functions to get the bytes of data from a COPY, like the original > > proposal. I am not sure COPY is the best mechanism to move records > > around when INSERT ... SELECT already does that. > > > > > I am not at all sure I think that's a good idea, though. We have > pg_read_file() for getting raw bytes from files. Building that into COPY > does not strike me as a good fit.
I think we're in agreement. All I mean is that the second argument to COPY should produce/consume bytes and not records. I'm not discussing the internal implementation at all, only semantics. In other words, STDIN is not a source of records, it's a source of bytes; and likewise for STDOUT. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers