Re: COPY formatting

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> I could go with that too.  The question here is do we have any popular
> use-cases that aren't solved by that extension, but could be solved by
> simple user-level data formatting functions?  I'm not real eager to add
> such a feature as an "if we build it they will come" speculation, but
> if anyone can point to solid use-cases besides handling CSV, then it
> probably is worth doing.

(I can't believe I'm saying this, but) It seems like xml output would be the
use case you're looking for.

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greg