Re: COPY table FROM STDIN doesn't show count tag

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> My inclination now (see later traffic) is to suppress the
>> status report when the COPY destination is the same as pset.queryFout
>> (ie, a simple test whether the FILE pointers are equal). This would
>> suppress the status report for "\copy to stdout" and "COPY TO STDOUT"
>> cases, and also for "\copy to pstdout" if you'd not redirected queryFout
>> with \o.

> This is reasonably similar to what we already do for SELECT, isn't it?
> I mean, the server always sends back a command tag, but psql
> sometimes opts not to print it.

Right, the analogy to SELECT gives some comfort that this is reasonable.

regards, tom lane