Re: psql command for bytea output

On 10/21/2011 02:44 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2011/10/21 Andrew Dunstan<andrew.dunstan@pgexperts.com>:
>> A few months ago, I blogged about the difficulty of getting psql to put a
>> bytea datum into a file. See
>> <http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/196-Clever-trick-challenge.html>.
>> Today I ran into the problem again, and it struck me that we could fairly
>> easily have a new command to handle this, called, say, bcopy. So it would
>> look like:
>>
>>    \bcopy (select generate_bytea()) to foo.bin
>>
>>
>> Thoughts?
> isn't better to fix current tools to work well with bytea?
>

Such as?

cheers

andrew