@ -9,5 +9,82 @@ Did you know the _all powerful_ PostgreSQL supports streaming binary data direct
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!
What this module gives you is a [Readable](http://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_class_stream_readable) or [Writable](http://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_class_stream_writable) stream directly into/out of a table in your database.
This mode of interfacing with your table is _very fast_ and _very brittle_. You are responsible for properly encoding and ordering all your columns. If anything is out of place PostgreSQL will send you back an error.
The stream works within a transaction so you wont leave things in a 1/2 borked state, but it's still good to be aware of.
If you're not familiar with the feature (I wasn't either) you can read this for some good helps: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-copy.html
## examples
### pipe from table to stdout
```js
var pg = require('pg');
var copyTo = require('pg-copy-streams').to;
pg.connect(function(err, client, done) {
var stream = client.query(copyTo('COPY my_table TO STDOUT'));
stream.pipe(process.stdout);
stream.on('end', done);
stream.on('error', done);
});
```
### pipe from a file to table
```js
var fs = require('fs');
var pg = require('pg');
var copyFrom = require('pg-copy-streams').from;
pg.connect(function(err, client, done) {
var text = 'COPY my_table FROM STDIN';
var stream = client.query(copyFrom('COPY my_table FROM STDIN'));
var fileStream = fs.createReadStream('some_file.tdv')
fileStream.pipe(stream);
fileStream.on('end', done);
fileStream.on('error', done);
});
```
## notice
Before you set out on this magical piping journey, you _really_ should read this: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-copy.html
## contributing
Instead of adding a bunch more code to the already bloated [node-postgres](https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres) I am trying to make the internals extensible and work on adding edge-case features as 3rd party modules.
This is one of those.
Please, if you have any issues with this, open an issue.
Better yet, submit a pull request. I _love_ pull requests.
Generally how I work is if you submit a few pull requests and you're interested I'll make you a contributor and give you full access to everything.
Since this isn't a module with tons of installs and dependants I hope we can work together on this to itterate faster here.
## license
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Copyright (c) 2013 Brian M. Carlson
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Brian C
11 years ago