Switching from OSX to Linux, multi-line queries in \copy don't work anymore

From: Ryan Kelly <rpkelly22(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Switching from OSX to Linux, multi-line queries in \copy don't work anymore
Date: 2012-07-27 13:28:00
Message-ID: 20120727132800.GA1807@llserver.lakeliving.com
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I recently switched from OSX to Linux and \copy in psql no longer
accepts multi-line queries. For instance:

\copy (
select
*
from
pg_settings
) to '/tmp/settings.csv' with csv header

This works fine on OSX. On Linux I get:
\copy: parse error at end of line

Am I missing something here?

Version information:

OSX (installed from macports):
iDarwin huxley.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:32:41 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
PostgreSQL 9.0.7 on x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0, compiled by GCC i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3), 64-bit

Linux (from pitti's ppa):
Linux planck 2.6.38-8-server #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:49:04 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
PostgreSQL 9.0.5 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc-4.5.real (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4) 4.5.2, 64-bit

-Ryan Kelly

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