Hello
I thing, so this patch is maybe good idea. I am missing better
function specification. Specification by name isn't enough - we can
have a overloaded functions. This syntax doesn't allow to use explicit
cast - from my personal view, the syntax is ugly - with type
specification we don't need to keyword FUNCTION
what about::
var a) by type specification
COPY table TO foo(varchar, int)
var b) by value expression - it allows some changes in order, casting, constants
COPY table TO foo($3, $1::date, $2::text, CURRENT_DATE, true);
One question:
We have a fast copy statement - ok., we have a fast function ok, but
inside a function we have to call "slow" sql query. Personally What is
advantage?
We need pipes like
like COPY table TO foo(..) TO table
foo() should be a transformation function, or real pipe function
Regards
Pavel Stehule
