Re: COPY support

Thanks for the info Kris, I suspected that may be the case.

Cheers

Ritchie

On Monday 17 November 2003 23:25, Kris Jurka wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, ritchie turner wrote:
> > I'm trying to optimise some sql inserts I have by using the COPY command
> > instead. I'm connecting from Java using 7.4 beta 3.  It works at the
> > command line, but I can't get it to work from Java. I'm doing an
> > executeUpdate() on the COPY string below in the hope it works, but ....
>
> COPY requires special protocol level support so this won't work.
>
> > I see there was some traffic on this list regard special copy support in
> > the driver, did it make it in? Can't see it.
>
> In February of last year Michael Adler made a patch to support copy, but
> it was rejected because the copy protocol was broken and a bad copy would
> completely hose your Connection.  With the new V3 protocol in 7.4 it makes
> copy errors recoverable so it can be implemented safely.  It's on my todo
> list to update his patch for the current driver, but I haven't gotten to
> it.
>
> Kris Jurka
>
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