Re: COPY support survey

Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> writes:
> So the question is what should we do?

> 1) Just get the raw stream interface into the official release and let the
> end user deal with reading and writing the stream.  That's all I'll use
> and I don't care about anything else.

> 2) Don't give up, get the friendly SQLInput/SQLOutput interface in because
> this is what I really want.

> 3) Put in the raw stream interface, but keep working to also add the
> friendly one.  I'll understand if the interface changes and I have to
> modify my code a bit.

Would it not be possible to do (1) now and leave the door open to add
(2) later without breaking existing uses of (1)?  That is, I don't see
why (3) has to carry a risk of non-backwards-compatibility.  Surely you
can design non-overlapping APIs for (1) and (2).

(Obviously, my vote is for (3).)

            regards, tom lane