Import CSV file with multi-byte delimiter by external table

[lij55]

As a user of GPDB, I have a lot of CSV/text files with multi-byte delimiter and I want to use external table to import these files.

[Eulerizeit]

This is supported in Postgres by running through a sed or awk script. Because it is that easy in Postgres it is a function of the copy command that is unlikely to change. Furthermore, changing this behavior in COPY incurs a lot of overhead which will then be carried over to every use of the COPY command in GPDB.

[lij55]

gpkafka will support multibyte-delimiter delimited text format.