Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:46:29PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> I wish somebody would explain to me the compelling use case for
> this.

As with "in-place upgrades,"[1] the compelling use case is being short
on disk space.  For somebody with a multi-TB (or whatever figure
sounds big this week) PostgreSQL database, it may be impossible to get
space for twice or more that.  Giving people the option to stream
COPYs through a pipe would alleviate a lot of pain.

Cheers,
D

[1]  A feature people seem to think we don't need, although convincing
cases have been made for it.
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