> I could see having a command to copy the current primary formatting > parameters to the alternate area, too.
We could have a stack to store parameters before temporary changes, for instance if you want to do one csv export and come back to normal without assuming what "normal" values were.
\pset push format csv_fieldsep \pset format csv \pset csv_fielsep '\t' some command \g somefile \pset pop
So \pset pop would reset the pushed parameters to their values when pushed, which also could be all parameters:
\pset push all \pset param1 something \pset param2 something-else ...other commands... \pset pop
or
\pset push all \i somescript.sql \pset pop
It can work, but it is not user friendly - my proposal was motivated by using some quick csv exports to gplot's pipe.
Regards
Pavel
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