From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:41:04 +0200
Message-ID: <447DB910.2020607@pse-consulting.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <447DB844.6010507@pse-consulting.de>
References: <12436.1149087794@sss.pgh.pa.us>
<447DB844.6010507@pse-consulting.de>
Andreas Pflug wrote:
>
> Won't help too much, until gzip's output is piped back too, so a
> replacement for COPY .. TO STDOUT COMPRESSED would be
> COPY ... TO '| /bin/gzip |' STDOUT, to enable clients to receive the
> reduced stuff.
Forgot to mention:
COPY COMPRESSED was also meant to introduce a portable format that's
efficient for both text and binary data. Relying on some external XYZzip
version seems not too portable to me.
Regards,
Andreas
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