Re: COPY IN as SELECT target - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: COPY IN as SELECT target
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Msg-id 162867790912172255i74ffa4efk67c5d7626638cc46@mail.gmail.com
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In response to COPY IN as SELECT target  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: COPY IN as SELECT target  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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2009/12/17 Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>:
>
> Recently there was discussion about allowing a COPY statement to be a SELECT
> target, returning a text array, although the syntax wasn't really nailed
> down that I recall. I was thinking that  we might have
>
>   COPY RETURNING ARRAY FROM ...
>
> instead of
>
>   COPY tablename opt_column_list FROM ...
>
>
> the we possibly could do things like:
>
>   SELECT t[5] as a, 3*(t[3]::numeric) as b FROM (COPY RETURNING ARRAY FROM
> STDIN CSV) as t;
>
> Thoughts?

In this case copy doesn't return array - so RETURNING ARRAY is little
bit strange.

what

SELECT .. FROM (COPY VALUES [(colums)] FROM ....)

Regards
Pavel

>
> cheers
>
> andrew
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