Mark Feit wrote: > Peter Eisentraut declared that from that point on, stdin would be > whatever stream the \copy command came from. I'd like to propose a > variant on the "FROM" clause which makes good on Peter's declaration > without breaking anything already using FROM STDIN and expecting it > to really read from stdin. (I think this is for the better because > there are lots of good uses for "psql -f foo.sql < foo.dat".) > > I'd be more than happy to write and test a patch if folks think this > would be a good thing. I'm leaning toward "FROM -" as the syntax but > am open to other ideas (i.e., "FROM HERE" or "FROM INPUT").
I'm not sure about the proposed syntax, but the feature sounds quite reasonable. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend