COPY TO STDOUT BINARY
Is COPY foo TO STDOUT BINARY supposed to work? The query will run some
time, but won't give a result.
I couldn't see any mentioning in the COPY command docs that would
prohibit use of this combination.
Tested with psql on 8.0.5 and 8.1.1.
Regards,
Andreas
Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
Is COPY foo TO STDOUT BINARY supposed to work?
I don't think psql will do anything particularly sane with binary copy
data, if that's what you meant.
regards, tom lane
Tom Lane wrote:
Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
Is COPY foo TO STDOUT BINARY supposed to work?
I don't think psql will do anything particularly sane with binary copy
data, if that's what you meant.
echo "COPY foo TO STDOUT BINARY;" | psql >bar
writes a 0 bytes file; not surprised if psql doesn't act sanely in
interactive mode.
For testing, I changed slony to use COPY .. BINARY, same result.
Regards,
Andreas
Andreas Pflug wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
Is COPY foo TO STDOUT BINARY supposed to work?
I don't think psql will do anything particularly sane with binary copy
data, if that's what you meant.echo "COPY foo TO STDOUT BINARY;" | psql >bar
writes a 0 bytes file; not surprised if psql doesn't act sanely in
interactive mode.For testing, I changed slony to use COPY .. BINARY, same result.
I tested this in a stand-alone backend and saw binary output that looked
right, so I think it is only psql that is failing.
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