Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>> you mean some sort of filter mechanism?
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>> COPY .... FILTER function_name ( args) ... ?
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>> That might work. Then we could provide a couple builtin and people could
>> write others in C or PL/dujour.
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> Yeah, that's pretty much what I was thinking, although exactly where the
> filter happens and what its arguments/results are is open to debate.
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I have slept on it, and while this is a nice idea, I think your
suggestion that this would take about the same effort as what I had in
mind (which I could just about have coded by now) is out by at least an
order of magnitude. I think it would eat up all my available time
between now and Nov 15, and I'm not prepared to spend my time budget
that way.
I will talk to the requestor and see if we can do something along the
lines of Robert's suggestion using a plperlu function and a temp file,
which I think I could do within the original time budget.
Consider the suggestion withdrawn.
cheers
andrew
