Re: COPY BINARY to STDOUT

Any comments on this?


> SAKAIDA Masaaki <sakaida@psn.co.jp> writes:
> > postgres=# copy binary test to stdout;  <====== error???
> > [ psql gets confused ]
> 
> Yes, I see it too.  The COPY data protocol is fundamentally textual,
> so there's no way of making this work without rewriting all our frontend
> interface libraries.  Not worth it.  I suggest that the backend should
> reject COPY BINARY commands that are either FROM STDIN or TO STDOUT.
> Anybody see a better way?
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 


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