Re: COPY enhancements - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: COPY enhancements
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Msg-id 20090911174205.GA12016@fetter.org
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In response to Re: COPY enhancements  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:37:33AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > While I'm at least as big a fan of generic options as the next
> > person, syntax is cheap.
> 
> No, it *isn't* cheap.  Particularly not for COPY, for which we need
> an ad-hoc parser in psql.

Is there some way we can use the regular parser, as plpgsql is moving
to, or is there just too much wound into the server?

Cheers,
David.
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