Re: json api WIP patch

On 01/08/2013 03:07 PM, james wrote:
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> Yes - but I don't think I can use COPY from a stored proc context can 
> I?  If I could use binary COPY from a stored proc that has received a 
> binary param and unpacked to the data, it would be handy.
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You can use COPY from a stored procedure, but only to and from files.

> If SPI provided a way to perform a copy to a temp table and then some 
> callback on an iterator that yields rows to it, that would do the 
> trick I guess.

SPI is useful, but it's certainly possible to avoid its use. After all, 
that what almost the whole backend does, including the COPY code. Of 
course, it's a lot harder to write that way, which is part of why SPI 
exists. Efficiency has its price.


cheers

andrew