On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 21:48 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > Anyway, my specific reaction to your suggestions in the email that I > quoted is that it seems a bit baroque and that I'm not really sure > what it's useful for in practice. I'm certainly not saying it ISN'T > useful, because I can't believe that you would have gone to the > trouble to work through all of this unless you had some ideas about > nifty things that could be done with it, but I think maybe we need to > back up and start by talking about the problems you're trying to > solve, before we get too far down into a discussion of implementation > details. It doesn't appear to me that's been discussed too much so > far, although there's enough enthusiasm here to make me suspect that > other people may understand it better than I do.
Dan made the use case fairly clear: "I have extended COPY to support using a UDF as a target instead of the normal 'file' or STDOUT targets. This dovetails nicely with a couple of extensions I have also written for dblink for the purposes of enabling direct cross-node bulk loading and replication." http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-11/msg01555.php David Fetter had some ideas as well: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-11/msg01826.php 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
