From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 10:17:35 -0700
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> I dislike putting this into the backend precisely because it's trying to
> impose a one-size-fits-all compression solution. Someone might wish to
> use bzip2 instead of gzip, for instance, or tweak the compression level
> options of gzip. It's trivial for the user to do that if the
> compression program is separate, not trivial at all if it's wired into
> COPY. Also, a pipe feature would have uses unrelated to compression,
> such as on-the-fly analysis or generation of data.
It seems that it would be better to have the options within pg_dump
which would give the most flexibility.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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