Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe

Tom Lane wrote:
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> You can accomplish COPY piping now through psql, but it's a bit awkward:
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>     psql -c "COPY mytable TO stdout" mydb | gzip ...
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> Thoughts?  Is this worth doing, or is the psql -c approach good enough?
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>     

I think it's good enough. And there is also
  pg_dump -F c -t bigtable -f bigtable.dump

cheers

andrew