Andreas Pflug wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
