Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> No, I'm interested, as I discussed in my message[1], in the ability to
> use functions in a copy statement to allow me to specify the conversion
> from text to the appropriate data type.
COPY is not intended to be that flexible; it's intended to be fast.
You can do any amount of processing you want in an INSERT statement,
though.
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (mydatefunc('2001/01/03'), ... );
regards, tom lane