On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 4:45 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote: > here is cleaned/finished previous implementation of RAW_TEXT/RAW_BINARY > formats for COPY statements. > > The RAW with text formats means unescaped data, but with correct encoding - > input/output is realised with input/output function. RAW binary means > content produced/received by sending/received functions. > > Now both directions (input/output) working well > > Some examples of expected usage: > > copy (select xmlelement(name foo, 'hello')) to stdout (format raw_binary, > encoding 'latin2'); > > create table avatars(id serial, picture bytea); > \copy avatars(picture) from ~/images/foo.jpg (format raw_binary); > select lastval(); > > create table doc(id serial, txt text); > \copy doc(txt) from ~/files/aaa.txt (format raw_text, encoding 'latin2'); > select lastval();
As much as I know you and some other people would like it to be otherwise, this patch clearly does not have a sufficient degree of consensus to justify committing it to PostgreSQL 9.6. I'm marking it Returned with Feedback.
