Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe

Andreas Pflug wrote:

> 
> Won't help too much, until gzip's output is piped back too, so a 
> replacement for COPY .. TO STDOUT COMPRESSED  would be
> COPY ... TO '| /bin/gzip |' STDOUT, to enable clients to receive the 
> reduced stuff.

Forgot to mention:
COPY COMPRESSED was also meant to introduce a portable format that's 
efficient for both text and binary data. Relying on some external XYZzip 
version seems not too portable to me.

Regards,
Andreas