Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> But why is that hugely better than piping psql output to gzip?
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> psql output has already travelled over the network.
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>

As I understand Tom's suggestion, it does not involve compression of
over the wire data. He suggested that on the server you would be able to do:

COPY mytable TO '| gzip >/home/tgl/mytable.dump.gz';

and that there could be an equivalent extension on psql's \copy command, as an alternative to doing

psql -c "COPY mytable TO stdout" mydb | gzip ...

It's the second piece especially that seems to me unnecessary.

So I am still unconvinced.

cheers

andrew