Andreas Pflug wrote:
Chris Browne wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Pflug) writes:
Dave Page wrote:
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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?
I never said that. We shall seek solutions that run painless on most
popular platforms are useful to users.
I wonder if we'd be able to ship gzip with the windows installer, to
insure proper integration.
I wish somebody would explain to me the compelling use case for this. We
do not have to build every possible capability into Postgres. As Tony
Hoare said, "Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to
get out."
This just seems like creeping featurism to me.
cheers
andrew
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