Re: Re: COPY BINARY file format proposal

> Also, IIRC part of the problem with text-based COPY is that we can't
> specify field order (I think this affectes dumping the regression DB).
> Would it be possible to add the ability to (a) specify field order, and (b)
> dump a subset of fields?

Informix does this nicely:

UNLOAD TO "file"
SELECT *
FROM tab

Merging COPY and SELECT has some real advantages. You can specify
columns, parts of a table using WHERE, and even joins. Very flexible.

Perhaps, if the table name is missing from COPY, we can allow a SELECT:

COPY TO 'file'
SELECT *
FROM tab

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