Re: Should \o mean "everything?"

David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:

> In a failed attempt to send the output of \pset to a pipe, I
> noticed that for reasons I find difficult to explain, not every
> output gets redirected with \o.
>
> At first blush, I'd consider this inconsistency as a bug.
>
> What have I missed?

The documentation says:

| Arranges to save future query results to the file filename or
| pipe future results to the shell command command. If no argument
| is specified, the query output is reset to the standard output.
|
| "Query results" includes all tables, command responses, and
| notices obtained from the database server, as well as output of
| various backslash commands that query the database (such as \d),
| but not error messages.

Are you seeing anything inconsistent with the documentation? If
so, what?

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