Greg,
The desired COPY FILE functionality for a local non-superuser user
would require a local file. That file is available locally.
A suggested workaround COPY with STDIN would involve the TCP pipe.
This does of course have the support for remote uploads.
But I am not currently interested in remote data transfers.
Regards
Bernard
On 19 Aug 2005 02:03:54 -0400, you wrote:
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>Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:
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>> Bernard was also objecting to the overhead of pushing the data down a
>> TCP pipe when it's already available locally, I think.. I didn't find
>> any real difference there when I compared the two methods, though.
>
>What makes you think it's necessarily available locally?
