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

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: COPY IN as SELECT target
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Msg-id 4B2A7ACD.2080109@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: COPY IN as SELECT target  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: COPY IN as SELECT target  (Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>)
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> In answer to Heiki's argument, what I wanted was exactly to return an
> array of text for each row. Whatever we have needs to be able to handle
> to possibility of ragged input (see previous discussion) so we can't tie
> it down too tightly.

I would have *lots* of use for this feature.

Mind you, returning (arbitrary expression) would be even better, but if
we can get returning TEXT[] for 8.5, I think it's worth doing on its own.

--Josh Berkus



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