Re: [PATCH] COPY .. COMPRESSED

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-01-15T22:24:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> COPY with a file name is super-user-only.  I am unclear how you would
> use STDIN/STDOUT in any meaningful way with binary data produced by
> compression.  I guess you could with libpq.

The patch that I posted provided this:

psql -h myhost -c "COPY mytable FROM STDIN COMPRESSED;" < myfile.gz

With the compressed file being transferred unmolested to the server side
where it was decompressed and processed by the server.

	Thanks,

		Stephen