Re: psql command for bytea output

Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 2011/10/21 Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)pgexperts(dot)com>:
>> On 10/21/2011 02:44 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>> isn't better to fix current tools to work well with bytea?

>> Such as?

> some like
> \copy ... to foo.bin format binary

No, because COPY BINARY will emit its own sort of wrappers around the
data.

What I don't like about Andrew's proposal is that it seems rather
limited. Why bytea in particular? Text chunks could probably also use
a direct output method. And what about input?

Could we do anything with a notion of a COPY RAW mode, that would dump
or read the data without any header, column, or row separators? On
input I suppose you'd have to restrict it to one column --- on output,
we could leave re-dividing the data to the user's ingenuity ...

regards, tom lane