Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe

pgadmin@pse-consulting.de (Andreas Pflug) writes:
> Dave Page wrote:
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
>>> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Andreas
>>> Pflug
>>>Sent: 31 May 2006 16:41
>>>Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
>>>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe
>>>
>>>Andreas Pflug wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Won't help too much, until gzip's output is piped back too, so a
>>>> replacement for COPY .. TO STDOUT COMPRESSED  would be
>>>> COPY ... TO '| /bin/gzip |' STDOUT, to enable clients to
>>>
>>> receive the
>>>
>>>>reduced stuff.
>>>
>>>Forgot to mention:
>>> COPY COMPRESSED was also meant to introduce a portable format
>>> that's efficient for both text and binary data. Relying on some
>>> external XYZzip version seems not too portable to me.
>> It does have that advantage. Gzip and others are not particularly
>> Windows friendly for example.
>
> ... as most windows programs are pipe agnostic.

Shall we make PostgreSQL less powerful because of that?
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