Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > > I agree with Andrew. If there are bugs in CSV, then we should fix them, > > not avoid give users this usability improvement. > > The case for it being a usability improvement seems very weak to me; > no one has yet demonstrated an actual use-case where someone would pull > CSV data out of pg_dump output instead of just dumping the table > directly with COPY. Now the "anti" case is admittedly hypothetical: > I'm supposing that we will eventually be bitten by portability problems > with CSV-style dumps not being loadable into future versions. But given > the weak nature of the "pro" case, I think we should be conservative > and not take that risk.
Well, I saw little request for COPY CSV here, but IRC users were reporting a lot of interest, and feedback from the release that added it showed it was a major feature, so just because we haven't see use-case here doesn't mean it doesn't exist. As was stated before, the use-case for this is by people we don't normally have contact with. -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
