Rod Taylor wrote:
>You either have code issuing the commands and collecting the results
>making a standard select just as fast or you are using psql which
>already has multiple display types for SELECT data, including XML
>output, but another could easily be added for CSV style output.
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We have CSV output now and it's produced by the server. psql's \copy is
in fact just a very thin veneer over the server-side COPY. Besides, we
might well be using another client - your assertion that if COPY output
is going to the client it must be psql is simply wrong.
cheers
andrew