Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> writes:
> Endlessly extending the COPY command doesn't seem like a winning
> proposition to me and I think if we aren't comfortable telling every user
> to write a script to pre/post-process the data we should instead provide a
> bulk loader/unloader that transforms things to our limited COPY
> functionality. There are all kinds of feature requests I've seen
> along these lines that would make COPY a million option mess if we try to
> support all of it directly.
I agree completely --- personally I'd not have put CSV into the backend
either.
IIRC we already have a TODO item for a separate bulk loader, but no
one's stepped up to the plate yet :-(
regards, tom lane
