Re: COPY formatting

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> >
> >Overall, I assert again that approaching this issue through COPY enhancements 
> >is really not the way to go.    We should be looking at a client utility, 
> >like pg_import and pg_export.     The primary purpose of COPY is bulk loads 
> >for backup/restore, and I'm against doing a lot of tinkering which might make 
> >it less efficient or introduce new issues into what's currently very 
> >reliable.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> That's not unreasonable. I floated my idea as an alternative to a much 
> more radical proposal. If we decided against it we should remove the 
> TODO item.
> 
> As against that, if we don't do this then I think we should embrace 
> these utility programs more, possibly bringing them into the distribution.

CSV seems to be the most widely requested conversion format.  Anything
else is probably a one-off job that should be done in perl or sed.

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