Re: generic copy options

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> psql has MORE need to support old syntax than the backend does, because
> it's supposed to work against old servers.
>
> I wonder though if we couldn't simplify matters.  Offhand it seems to me
> that psql doesn't need to validate the command's syntax fully.  All it
> really needs to do is find the target filename and replace it with
> STDIN/STDOUT.  Could we have it just treat the remainder of the line
> literally, and not worry about the details of what the options might be?
> Let the backend worry about throwing an error if they're bad.
>
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Makes plenty of sense.

On a related topic, I'm not sure how we would go about providing psql 
support for the suggested copy-as-from-target feature that's been 
discussed recently. That could get mildly ugly.

cheers

andrew