Re: COPY BINARY to STDOUT

Any comments on this?

> SAKAIDA Masaaki <sakaida(at)psn(dot)co(dot)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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