COPY FROM supports the HEADER option to silently discard the header
line from a CSV or text file. It is possible to load by mistake a
file that matches the expected format, for example, if two text
columns have been swapped, resulting in garbage in the database.
This adds a new option value HEADER MATCH that checks the column names
in the header line against the actual column names and errors out if
they do not match.
Author: Rémi Lapeyre <remi.lapeyre@lenstra.fr>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAF1-J-0PtCWMeLtswwGV2M70U26n4g33gpe1rcKQqe6wVQDrFA@mail.gmail.com
"git mv" all the input/*.source and output/*.source files into
the corresponding sql/ and expected/ directories. Then remove
the pg_regress and Makefile infrastructure associated with
dynamic translation.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1655733.1639871614@sss.pgh.pa.us
This is both very useful in its own right, and an important test case
for the core FDW support.
This commit includes a small refactoring of copy.c to expose its option
checking code as a separately callable function. The original patch
submission duplicated hundreds of lines of that code, which seemed pretty
unmaintainable.
Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by Itagaki Takahiro and Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane