Re: textarray option for file FDW

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>

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

Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-01-15T19:59:37Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Why is this a good thing?  It seems like it would accomplish little
> except to defeat the SQL type system entirely.

It simply allows to have the classical ETL problem solved directly in
the database server, in SQL.  That's huge.

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
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