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Fix psql's "\g target" meta-command to work with COPY TO STDOUT.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 19:15:42 +0000 (14:15 -0500)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 19:15:42 +0000 (14:15 -0500)
commitae4c7d5ab88668275ab69913169564ce9bcbf27d
treef2a1fb920937444e3550820c0db02f4daa488081
parent0d5b2735122557417e24a73f92a518638d2a5a32
Fix psql's "\g target" meta-command to work with COPY TO STDOUT.

Previously, \g would successfully execute the COPY command, but
the target specification if any was ignored, so that the data was
always dumped to the regular query output target.  This seems like
a clear bug, so let's not just fix it but back-patch it.

While at it, adjust the documentation for \copy to recommend
"COPY ... TO STDOUT \g foo" as a plausible alternative.

Back-patch to 9.5.  The problem exists much further back, but the
code associated with \g was refactored enough in 9.5 that we'd
need a significantly different patch for 9.4, and it doesn't
seem worth the trouble.

Daniel Vérité, reviewed by Fabien Coelho

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15dadc39-e050-4d46-956b-dcc4ed098753@manitou-mail.org
doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
src/bin/psql/common.c
src/bin/psql/copy.c