Re: COPY TO STDOUT BINARY

[Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)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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