[HACKERS] Re: COPY commands could use an enhancement.

2001-04-30 Thread Joel Burton
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > I think it'd be better to put effort into an external data translation > utility that can deal with column selection, data reformatting, CR/LF > conversion, and all those other silly little issues that come up when > you need to move data from one DBMS to an

[HACKERS] Re: COPY commands could use an enhancement.

2001-04-30 Thread Joel Burton
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Basically: > COPY "webmaster" FROM stdin; > > could become: > COPY "webmaster" FIELDS "id", "name", "ssn" FROM stdin; We'd need some way of making field name dumping optional, because one of the nice things about not having the field names appear i