Andreas Pflug wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > After re-reading what I just wrote to Andreas about how compression of > > COPY data would be better done outside the backend than inside, it > > struck me that we are missing a feature that's fairly common in Unix > > programs. Perhaps COPY ought to have the ability to pipe its output > > to a shell command, or read input from a shell command. Maybe something > > like > > > > COPY mytable TO '| gzip >/home/tgl/mytable.dump.gz';
For use case, consider this: COPY mytable TO '| rsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > test '; so you can COPY to another server directly. -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match