Re: [PATCH] COPY .. COMPRESSED - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: [PATCH] COPY .. COMPRESSED
Date
Msg-id 20130115222437.GY16126@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: [PATCH] COPY .. COMPRESSED  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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* Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> COPY with a file name is super-user-only.  I am unclear how you would
> use STDIN/STDOUT in any meaningful way with binary data produced by
> compression.  I guess you could with libpq.

The patch that I posted provided this:

psql -h myhost -c "COPY mytable FROM STDIN COMPRESSED;" < myfile.gz

With the compressed file being transferred unmolested to the server side
where it was decompressed and processed by the server.
Thanks,
    Stephen

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