Re: COPY formatting

Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> I could go with that too.  The question here is do we have any popular
>> use-cases that aren't solved by that extension, but could be solved by
>> simple user-level data formatting functions?

> (I can't believe I'm saying this, but) It seems like xml output would be the
> use case you're looking for.

Does that fall into the category of stuff that could be supported by the
kind of API we're talking about?  I should think that XML would need a
much more global view of the data, not just line-by-line reformatting.
        regards, tom lane