Weird behavior in psql with \copy

Folks,

following example shows a weird behavior with the transaction status
identifier
in psql's prompt and the \copy command:

bernd(at)[local]:bernd #= SELECT version();
version

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 8.2beta3 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc-4.0
(GCC) 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)
(1 row)

bernd(at)[local]:bernd #= \set
AUTOCOMMIT = 'on'
PROMPT1 = '%n(at)%m:%/ %#%x%R '

[...]

bernd(at)[local]:bernd #= \copy foo TO '/home/bernd/tmp/test.dat'
bernd(at)[local]:bernd #*= COMMIT;
WARNING: there is no transaction in progress
COMMIT

I do the COMMIT; just to show that i'm really not in a transaction.

I see the same in PostgreSQL 8.1.4, too. It looks like get_prompt() seems
to fail to set the
correct prompt because PQtransactionStatus() still reports PGASYNC_BUSY,
but
i'm not that deep into libpq to nail that really down.

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Thanks

Bernd