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

From David Fetter
Subject Re: COPY IN as SELECT target
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Msg-id 20091217173808.GF3000@fetter.org
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In response to Re: COPY IN as SELECT target  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: COPY IN as SELECT target  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:28:50PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > How about just COPY FROM? As in
> >
> > SELECT t[5] as a, 3*(t[3]::numeric) as b FROM (COPY FROM STDIN
> > CSV) as t
> 
> I had the same thought.  Though it would also be nice to allow
> something like:
> 
> COPY (type1, type2, type3, type4) FROM STDIN CSV
> 
> ...which is obviously going to create a horrible parser problem if
> you actually tried to use that syntax.

How about using the CTE syntax?

Cheers,
David.
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