Re: COPY Transform support

Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> AFAIK the state of the art is actually to load the data into a table which
> closely matches the source material, sometimes just columns of text. Then copy
> it all to another table doing transformations. Not impressed.

I liked the idea of allowing COPY FROM to act as a table source in a
larger SELECT or INSERT...SELECT.  Not at all sure what would be
involved to implement that, but it seems a lot more flexible than
any other approach.
        regards, tom lane