Re: COPY IN as SELECT target

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> How about just COPY FROM? As in
>
> SELECT t[5] as a, 3*(t[3]::numeric) as b FROM (COPY FROM STDIN CSV) as t

I had the same thought.  Though it would also be nice to allow something like:

COPY (type1, type2, type3, type4) FROM STDIN CSV

...which is obviously going to create a horrible parser problem if you
actually tried to use that syntax.

...Robert