Karel, Andrew, Fernando: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:02:38AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The formatting function API can be pretty simple: > > > text *my_copy_format(text *attrdata, int direction, > > > int nattrs, int attr, oid attrtype, oid relation)
No offense, but isn't this whole thing more appropriate for a client program? Like the pg_import and pg_export projects on GBorg? Has anyone looked at those projects? I can see making a special provision for CSV in COPY, just because it's such a universal format. But I personally don't see that a complex, sophisticated import/export formatter belongs on the SQL command line. Particularly since most users will want a GUI to handle it. And, BTW, I deal with CSV *all the time* for my insurance clients, and I can tell you that that format hasn't changed in 20 years. We can hard-code it if it's easier. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
