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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Daniel Verite" <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>
Cc: "Fabien COELHO" <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Alternative to \copy in psql modelled after \g
Date: 2019-01-28 15:31:25
Message-ID: 8378.1548689485@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Daniel Verite" <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> A variant that might or might not be safer is "\g <foo", ie we
>> insist on you putting a mark there that shows you intended to read.

> I haven't written any patch yet, but I was thinking of submitting
> something like that, with the addition of "\g >foo" as a synonym of
> "\g foo" for the symmetry with "<".

+1, the same had occurred to me.

regards, tom lane

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