postgresql/contrib/file_fdw
Heikki Linnakangas 3d009e45bd Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.
This includes backend "COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM '...'" syntax, and corresponding
psql \copy syntax. Like with reading/writing files, the backend version is
superuser-only, and in the psql version, the program is run in the client.

In the passing, the psql \copy STDIN/STDOUT syntax is subtly changed: if you
the stdin/stdout is quoted, it's now interpreted as a filename. For example,
"\copy foo from 'stdin'" now reads from a file called 'stdin', not from
standard input. Before this, there was no way to specify a filename called
stdin, stdout, pstdin or pstdout.

This creates a new function in pgport, wait_result_to_str(), which can
be used to convert the exit status of a process, as returned by wait(3),
to a human-readable string.

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Amit Kapila.
2013-02-27 18:22:31 +02:00
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data Add FORCE_NOT_NULL support to the file_fdw foreign data wrapper. 2011-09-16 16:35:51 -04:00
expected
input Add FORCE_NOT_NULL support to the file_fdw foreign data wrapper. 2011-09-16 16:35:51 -04:00
output Improve error message wording 2013-02-06 00:19:53 -03:00
sql
.gitignore Support "make check" in contrib 2011-04-25 22:27:11 +03:00
file_fdw--1.0.sql Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:03 -04:00
file_fdw.c Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program. 2013-02-27 18:22:31 +02:00
file_fdw.control
Makefile