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Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add tests to dblink covering use of COPY TO FUNCTION

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

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From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Farina <drfarina@gmail.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@krosing.net>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Daniel Farina <dfarina@truviso.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-25T07:09:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 07:31 +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > My disagreement with the row-by-row approach is more semantics than
> > performance. COPY translates records to bytes and vice-versa, and your
> > original patch maintains those semantics.
> 
> uff, really
> 
> COPY CSV ?

CSV is like text or binary: just another format to _represent_ records
as a sequence of bytes. A CSV file is not a set of postgresql records
until COPY interprets it as such.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis