Re: multiline CSV fields - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: multiline CSV fields
Date
Msg-id 200411300353.iAU3rZr17548@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: multiline CSV fields  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> writes:
> > Endlessly extending the COPY command doesn't seem like a winning 
> > proposition to me and I think if we aren't comfortable telling every user 
> > to write a script to pre/post-process the data we should instead provide a 
> > bulk loader/unloader that transforms things to our limited COPY 
> > functionality.  There are all kinds of feature requests I've seen 
> > along these lines that would make COPY a million option mess if we try to 
> > support all of it directly.
> 
> I agree completely --- personally I'd not have put CSV into the backend
> either.

What pushed us was the large number of request for it.

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