Hello,
in psycopg 3 we are currently using PQexecParams - although with no
params - to send COPY commands. The reason is mostly to avoid people
to send COPY together with other statements. Especially if other
operations are chained after COPY: we would only notice them after
copy is finished. Data changes might have been applied by then, so
throwing an exception seems impolite (the result might have been
applied already) but managing the result is awkward too.
Someone [1] has pointed out this conversation [2] which suggests that
COPY with extended protocol might break in the future.
[1] https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg/issues/78
[2]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAMsr%2BYGvp2wRx9pPSxaKFdaObxX8DzWse%2BOkWk2xpXSvT0rq-g%40mail.gmail.com#CAMsr+YGvp2wRx9pPSxaKFdaObxX8DzWse+OkWk2xpXSvT0rq-g@mail.gmail.com
As far as PostgreSQL is concerned, would it be better to stick to
PQexec with COPY, and if people append statements afterwards they
would be the ones to deal with the consequences? (being the server
applying the changes, the client throwing an exception)
Thank you very much
-- Daniele