Re: Make COPY format extendable: Extract COPY TO format implementations

On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 09:46:42PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> No - what I mean is that it doesn't make sense to have copy_attribute_out(),
> as e.g. CopyToTextOneRow() already knows that it's dealing with text, so it
> can directly call the right function. That does require splitting a bit more
> between csv and text output, but I think that can be done without much
> duplication.

I am not sure to understand here.  In what is that different from
reverting 2889fd23be56 then mark CopyAttributeOutCSV and
CopyAttributeOutText as static inline?  Or you mean to merge
CopyAttributeOutText and CopyAttributeOutCSV together into a single
inlined function, reducing a bit code readability?  Both routines have
their own roadmap for encoding_embeds_ascii with quoting and escaping,
so keeping them separated looks kinda cleaner here.
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Michael