Re: ECPG and COPY TO STDOUT

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:22:44PM -0700, Edmund Bacon wrote:
> If I use COPY TO STDOUT in an ECPG program, where does the output go?

Nowhere, it's discarded.

> What I'm trying to do is to dump a table's data, and have the resulting
> file owned by the application user rather than the dba user.

ecpg gets PGRES_COPY_OUT as a result from the execution and just calls
PQendcopy() without reading the data. The same happens btw with
PGRES_COPY_IN. It's working like this since the get-go in the sources I
inherited from Linux Tolke. I guess we could add this to the todo list
as a feature request.

Patches are welcome of course. :-)

Michael
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