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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)
commitcda1e27fb7064e499ea499776bad13036d9c4961
tree422c06d103c1d107674a6db23c13266f887f067e
parent741ee48900c5bbf970f23d32e49020408e417bdc
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