Re: autogenerating headers & bki stuff

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Introducing defaults for DATA() would bring some benefits because it
> would mostly avoid the need to change every row in the file when
> adding a new column.  But a preprocessing script can do much more
> sophisticated transformations, like computing a value for a column, or
> looking up type names in another file and translating them into OIDs.

Hmm.  A preprocessing script that produces DATA commands might in fact
be a reasonable proposal, but it was not what I understood you to be
suggesting before.
        regards, tom lane