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Re: [PATCH] COPY .. COMPRESSED

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-01-15T22:22:47Z
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:22:48PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> > Well, COPY is super-user only, so it seems only useful for FDW, no?  We
> > already have lots of user-configuration FDW commands, so I can see
> > adding this one too.
> 
> COPY is most certainly not superuser-only..  COPY w/ popen, if that
> popen can call anything, would certainly have to be superuser-only.

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.

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