Re: COPY enhancements - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Hannu Krosing
Subject Re: COPY enhancements
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Msg-id 1255079455.981.1.camel@hvost1700
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In response to Re: COPY enhancements  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:32 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:

> Another possible approach, which isn't perfect either, is the idea of
> allowing COPY to generate a single column of output of type text[].
> That greatly reduces the number of possible error cases, 

maybe make it bytea[] to further reduce error cases caused by charset
incompatibilities ?

> and at least
> gets the data into the DB where you can hack on it.  But it's still
> going to be painful for some use cases.
> 
> ...Robert

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