Re: WIP patch: add (PRE|POST)PROCESSOR options to COPY

On 11/14/12 11:50 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>     COPY table FROM 'some command line |';
>>     COPY table TO '| some command line';
>>
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> 
> I'd like to be able to filter STDIN if possible - with this syntax how
> is COPY going to know to hook up STDIN to the program?

Why don't you filter the data before it gets to stdin?  Some program is
feeding the data to "stdin" on the client side.  Why doesn't that do the
filtering?  I don't see a large advantage in having the data be sent
unfiltered to the server and having the server do the filtering.