On 14 November 2012 15:09, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> What about further extending the COPY IN syntax to the following?
>
> COPY table_name FROM 'progname [ option, ... ]' WITH ...
>
> I'd just like to execute
>
> COPY vmstat_table FROM 'vmstat' WITH ...
If we go ahead with this, I think it needs additional keyword to
indicate that we will execute the file rather than read from it. I
don't think we should rely on whether the file is executable or not to
determine how we should treat it.
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