Re: WIP patch: add (PRE|POST)PROCESSOR options to COPY - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: WIP patch: add (PRE|POST)PROCESSOR options to COPY
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Msg-id 50521759.5070900@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: WIP patch: add (PRE|POST)PROCESSOR options to COPY  (Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>)
Responses Re: WIP patch: add (PRE|POST)PROCESSOR options to COPY  ("Etsuro Fujita" <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>)
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On 09/13/2012 01:20 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> I think it would be a lot better if this were designed so that the
>> processor programs executed on client side.  Which would probably make
>> it not a COPY patch at all, but something in psql.
> And pgloader, which already has a part of that feature with the per
> column reformating facility.
>

Yeah, I'd be inclined to say that pre/post processing of this kind is 
really a job for specialized clients.

cheers

andrew




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