"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> How is this different from the fact that the superuser can already use
> COPY to accomplish the same thing?
COPY can accomplish a few of the same things, much less conveniently
(for instance, it's darn hard to write an arbitrary binary file through
COPY).
If COPY provided all the same functionality, then Andreas would just use
that and not be so worried about having this patch. QED.
regards, tom lane