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+node-pg-copy-streams
+====================
+
+COPY FROM / COPY TO for node-postgres.  Stream from one database to another, and stuff.
+
+## how? what? huh?
+
+Did you know the _all powerful_ PostgreSQL supports streaming binary data directly into and out of a table?
+This means you can take your favorite CSV or TSV or whatever format file and pipe it directly into an existing PostgreSQL table.
+You can also take a table and pipe it directly to a file, another database, stdout, even to `/dev/null` if you're crazy!
+
+The way I use this usually is to take a table from a production database and replicate it exactly into a dev or local database, but like I said, you can do a lot of funky stuff piping your tables around.  
+node.js just happens to be fantastic at piping too. We all win!