Hi,
in TODO is item: "* Allow dump/load of CSV format". I don't think
it's clean idea. Why CSV and why not something other? :-)
A why not allow to users full control of the format by they own
function. It means something like:
COPY tablename [ ( column [, ...] ) ]
TO { 'filename' | STDOUT }
[ [ WITH ]
[ BINARY ]
[ OIDS ]
[ DELIMITER [ AS ] 'delimiter' ]
[ NULL [ AS ] 'null string' ]
[ FORMAT funcname ] ]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The formatting function API can be pretty simple:
text *my_copy_format(text *attrdata, int direction,
int nattrs, int attr, oid attrtype, oid relation)
-- it's pseudocode of course, it should be use standard fmgr
interface.
It's probably interesting for non-binary COPY version.
Comments?
Karel
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