On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 11:48 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-- Andres Freund <andres@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> So, I think making COPY extensible would be quite beneficial. I'm
> however quite doubtful that we want to add core code to handle all of
> the above. I think we should make the COPY input/output formatting
> extensible by extensions.
+1. I can't see carrying code for these formats in-core, but I've
no objection to making it possible for someone else to maintain them.
+1. And bonus points if an API can also be defined so such an extension parsing also becomes useful to file_fdw automatically (or at least optionally).
