[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Pflug) writes: > Dave Page wrote: >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas >>> Pflug >>>Sent: 31 May 2006 16:41 >>>Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org >>>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe >>> >>>Andreas Pflug wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Won't help too much, until gzip's output is piped back too, so a >>>> replacement for COPY .. TO STDOUT COMPRESSED would be >>>> COPY ... TO '| /bin/gzip |' STDOUT, to enable clients to >>> >>> receive the >>> >>>>reduced stuff. >>> >>>Forgot to mention: >>> COPY COMPRESSED was also meant to introduce a portable format >>> that's efficient for both text and binary data. Relying on some >>> external XYZzip version seems not too portable to me. >> It does have that advantage. Gzip and others are not particularly >> Windows friendly for example. > > ... as most windows programs are pipe agnostic.
Shall we make PostgreSQL less powerful because of that? -- "cbbrowne","@","cbbrowne.com" http://cbbrowne.com/info/advocacy.html "Love is like a snowmobile flying over the frozen tundra that suddenly flips, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." -- Matt Groening ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
