Re: proposal: psql \setfileref

On 10/9/16 9:54 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> I understand, but I am not sure how difficult implementation it is. This part
>> > (COPY input) doesn't support parametrization - and parametrization can have a
>> > negative performance impact.
> And it would need to be \:file_ref in COPY so real data doesn't trigger
> it.

ISTM it'd be much saner to just restrict file ref's to only working with 
psql's \COPY, and not server-side COPY.
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