Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.
This includes backend "COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM '...'" syntax, and corresponding
psql \copy syntax. Like with reading/writing files, the backend version is
superuser-only, and in the psql version, the program is run in the client.
In the passing, the psql \copy STDIN/STDOUT syntax is subtly changed: if you
the stdin/stdout is quoted, it's now interpreted as a filename. For example,
"\copy foo from 'stdin'" now reads from a file called 'stdin', not from
standard input. Before this, there was no way to specify a filename called
stdin, stdout, pstdin or pstdout.
This creates a new function in pgport, wait_result_to_str(), which can
be used to convert the exit status of a process, as returned by wait(3),
to a human-readable string.
Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Amit Kapila.
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3d009e45bde2a2681826ef549637ada76508b597
Modified Files
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contrib/file_fdw/file_fdw.c | 4 +-
doc/src/sgml/keywords.sgml | 7 +
doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml | 50 +++++++-
doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml | 33 ++++--
src/backend/commands/copy.c | 205 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
src/backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c | 1 +
src/backend/nodes/equalfuncs.c | 1 +
src/backend/parser/gram.y | 48 ++++++--
src/backend/storage/file/fd.c | 98 ++++++++++++++-
src/bin/psql/copy.c | 131 ++++++++++++++++----
src/bin/psql/stringutils.c | 5 +-
src/bin/psql/stringutils.h | 2 +
src/include/commands/copy.h | 2 +-
src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h | 1 +
src/include/parser/kwlist.h | 1 +
src/include/port.h | 3 +
src/include/storage/fd.h | 4 +
src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.addons | 2 +-
src/port/Makefile | 3 +-
src/port/exec.c | 37 ++----
src/port/wait_error.c | 92 ++++++++++++++
21 files changed, 581 insertions(+), 149 deletions(-)