Re: Add encoding support to COPY

David Blewett wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Well, it might make sense to allow an ENCODING option attached to a COPY
> > with a file source/destination.  I remain of the opinion that overriding
> > client_encoding on a transfer to/from the client is a bad idea.

> I could see a use case for remote client code to do a COPY to STDOUT,
> that is actually being redirected to a file. If the consensus is for
> local file-based operations only, however, I can structure the patch
> that way.

Yeah, the problem is that reading to/from files is only allowed to
superusers ...

(I'm not sure how this affects \copy in psql; probably something you
should investigate)

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