Re: COPY IN as SELECT target - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
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In response to Re: COPY IN as SELECT target  (Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>)
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<[email protected]> wrote:
> How about just COPY FROM? As in
>
> SELECT t[5] as a, 3*(t[3]::numeric) as b FROM (COPY FROM STDIN CSV) as t

I had the same thought.  Though it would also be nice to allow something like:

COPY (type1, type2, type3, type4) FROM STDIN CSV

...which is obviously going to create a horrible parser problem if you
actually tried to use that syntax.

...Robert


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