Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> My inclination now (see later traffic) is to suppress the
>> status report when the COPY destination is the same as pset.queryFout
>> (ie, a simple test whether the FILE pointers are equal). This would
>> suppress the status report for "\copy to stdout" and "COPY TO STDOUT"
>> cases, and also for "\copy to pstdout" if you'd not redirected queryFout
>> with \o.
> This is reasonably similar to what we already do for SELECT, isn't it?
> I mean, the server always sends back a command tag, but psql
> sometimes opts not to print it.
Right, the analogy to SELECT gives some comfort that this is reasonable.
regards, tom lane