Re: BUG #1830: Non-super-user must be able to copy from a

Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:
>
>>It sounds like what you really want is the ability to grant something
>>like FILE access without granting all superuser rights? Sounds like a
>>feature request, not a bug, to me :-)
>
>
> AFAICT, the complaint really boils down to there not being any support
> for COPY-from-client in the JDBC driver.

Bernard was also objecting to the overhead of pushing the data down a
TCP pipe when it's already available locally, I think.. I didn't find
any real difference there when I compared the two methods, though.

-O