Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add tests to dblink covering use of COPY TO FUNCTION

On Wed, November 25, 2009 3:56 pm, Jeff Davis wrote:
>
> I worry that we're getting further away from the original problem. Let's
> allow functions to get the bytes of data from a COPY, like the original
> proposal. I am not sure COPY is the best mechanism to move records
> around when INSERT ... SELECT already does that.
>


I am not at all sure I think that's a good idea, though. We have
pg_read_file() for getting raw bytes from files. Building that into COPY
does not strike me as a good fit.

cheers

andrew