On 2000-01-12, Tom Lane mentioned:
> It seems to me that we ought to provide both behaviors, but make sure
> that the one that supports data-in-the-script is the one invoked by
> COPY FROM STDIN (since that's what pg_dump uses). Perhaps psql's \copy
> command can be set up to support the other alternative.
\copy from stdin is not used yet. That would work. There might be issues
I'm overlooking now, but anything else that came up in this thread will
most likely not work in the general case.
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