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.
>
> Also, not quite clear what we'd do about copy-from-program.
> I think "\g |foo" is definitely confusing for that. "\g foo|"
> would be better if it doesn't have syntax issues.
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 "<".
Perl's open() also uses the "program |" syntax.
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