Re: Loading binary data into the database

> Adriaan Joubert <a.joubert@albourne.com> writes:
> > since 7.0.2 binary copy has been disabled, making
> > quite a few libpq functions superfluous
> 
> Such as?  IIRC, the reason we disabled it was precisely that there was
> no support on the client side.  (What's worse, there's no support in
> the FE/BE protocol either.  I don't see how you could have made this
> work...)
> 
> Cross-machine binary copy is a dangerous thing anyway, since it opens
> you up to all sorts of compatibility problems.  If your app is running
> on the same machine as the server, you can write data to a file and
> then send a command to do a binary copy from that file.

We disabled binary copy?  Using \copy or COPY?

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