Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Does that fall into the category of stuff that could be supported by the
> kind of API we're talking about? I should think that XML would need a
> much more global view of the data, not just line-by-line reformatting.
I saw it the other way around. The only reason I saw for writing code in COPY
directly was if it needed a more global view of the data. Any line-by-line
reformatting could just be done with a perl one-liner.
If it can't do that what's the advantage? Speed?
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greg
