David G. Johnston wrote: > POLA, for me at least, would be for \g [filename] to do exactly what > you are describing with the \copyto feature.
I admit that if we could improve \g to handle COPY, it would be more elegant than the current proposal adding two meta-commands. But the copy-workflow and non-copy-workflow are different, and in order to know which one to start, \g would need to analyze the query to determine whether it's a COPY FROM, COPY TO or something else. psql parses queries syntactically, but not semantically AFAIK, and I suspect we don't want to start doing that, as it breaks a separation of concerns. Best regards, -- Daniel Vérité PostgreSQL-powered mailer: http://www.manitou-mail.org Twitter: @DanielVerite
