Re: Alternative to \copy in psql modelled after \g

"Daniel Verite" <daniel@manitou-mail.org> writes:
>     Tom Lane wrote:
>> A variant that might or might not be safer is "\g <foo", ie we
>> insist on you putting a mark there that shows you intended to read.

> I haven't written any patch yet, but I was thinking of submitting
> something like that, with the addition of "\g >foo" as a synonym of
> "\g foo" for the symmetry with "<".

+1, the same had occurred to me.

            regards, tom lane