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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.
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Heikki Linnakangas
2013-02-27 18:17:21 +02:00
parent 73dc003bee
commit 3d009e45bd
21 changed files with 584 additions and 152 deletions

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@@ -1407,6 +1407,7 @@ typedef struct CopyStmt
List *attlist; /* List of column names (as Strings), or NIL
* for all columns */
bool is_from; /* TO or FROM */
bool is_program; /* is 'filename' a program to popen? */
char *filename; /* filename, or NULL for STDIN/STDOUT */
List *options; /* List of DefElem nodes */
} CopyStmt;