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Re: Alternative to \copy in psql modelled after \g

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Cc: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-01-26T19:19:00Z
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Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> writes:
>> It's unclear to me whether to push ahead with Daniel's existing
>> patch or not.  It doesn't look to me like it's making things
>> any worse from the error-consistency standpoint than they were
>> already, so I'd be inclined to consider error semantics cleanup
>> as something to be done separately/later.

> Fine.

OK.  I fixed the error-cleanup issue and pushed it.

The patch applied cleanly back to 9.5, but the code for \g is a good
bit different in 9.4.  I didn't have the interest to try to make the
patch work with that, so I just left 9.4 alone.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Fix psql's "\g target" meta-command to work with COPY TO STDOUT.