> On Dec 11, 2015, at 2:54 PM, Caleb Welton <cwel...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > The current semantic level is pretty low level, somewhat cumbersome, and > requires filling in values that most of the time the system has a pretty good > idea how to fill in default values. > > Compare: > CREATE FUNCTION lo_export(oid, text) RETURNS integer LANGUAGE internal STRICT > AS 'lo_export' WITH (OID=765); > > DATA(insert OID = 765 ( lo_export PGNSP PGUID 12 1 0 0 0 f f f > f t f v u 2 0 23 "26 25" _null_ _null_ _null_ _null_ _null_ lo_export _null_ > _null_ _null_ ));
I would like to hear more about this idea. Are you proposing that we use something like the above CREATE FUNCTION format to express what is currently being expressed with DATA statements? That is an interesting idea, though I don't know what exactly that would look like. If you want to forward this idea, I'd be eager to hear your thoughts. If not, I'll try to make progress with my idea of tab delimited files and such (or really, Alvaro's idea of csv files that I only slightly corrupted). mark
