Allow contrib/file_fdw to read from a program, like COPY FROM PROGRAM.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 8e91e12bc3af85ba2287866669268f6825d2cc03
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2016-09-29T17:32:34Z
Releases: 10.0
Allow contrib/file_fdw to read from a program, like COPY FROM PROGRAM.

This patch just exposes COPY's FROM PROGRAM option in contrib/file_fdw.
There don't seem to be any security issues with that that are any worse
than what already exist with file_fdw and COPY; as in the existing cases,
only superusers are allowed to control what gets executed.

A regression test case might be nice here, but choosing a 100% portable
command to run is hard.  (We haven't got a test for COPY FROM PROGRAM
itself, either.)

Corey Huinker and Adam Gomaa, reviewed by Amit Langote

Discussion: <CADkLM=dGDGmaEiZ=UDepzumWg-CVn7r8MHPjr2NArj8S3TsROQ@mail.gmail.com>

Files

PathChange+/−
contrib/file_fdw/file_fdw.c modified +88 −43
contrib/file_fdw/output/file_fdw.source modified +3 −3
doc/src/sgml/file-fdw.sgml modified +46 −20

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