Re: proposal: psql statements \gstore \gstore_binary (instead COPY RAW)

From: Oleksandr Shulgin <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposal: psql statements \gstore \gstore_binary (instead COPY RAW)
Date: 2016-12-09 18:48:05
Message-ID: CACACo5QD3P5rtGD1-f9d1hJEMHujWnXPUQd0iaT_6CSs3c-cpQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Dec 9, 2016 18:40, "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

Hi

Long time I am pushing a COPY RAW - without success.

Now I propose functionally similar solution - reduced to only to psql
console

Now we have a statement \g for execution query, \gset for exec and store
result in memory and I propose \gstore for storing result in file and
\gstore_binary for storing result in file with binary passing. The query
result should be one row, one column.

Usage:

SELECT image FROM accounts WHERE id = xxx
\gstore_binary ~/image.png

What do you think about this proposal?

I might be missing something, but is it different from:

\t
\a
\o output_filename
SELECT ...
\o

?

--
Alex

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