The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/features.html Description:
CSV files can be huge. most commercial spreadsheets cannot handle it. there are high-volume transactions such as for tax reporting which need a separate copy (user can handle that) with columns dropped, maybe renamed (yeah, ALTER shouldn't be so hard to use), and an SQL or SQL-like language for this would be excellent.