Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> So for your patch, I would just do the path adjustment ad hoc in-line.
> It's just one additional line.
Here's the patch updated that way.
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Daniel Vérité
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diff --git a/src/bin/psql/t/001_basic.pl b/src/bin/psql/t/001_basic.pl
index 64ce012062..c8780d0a52 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/t/001_basic.pl
+++ b/src/bin/psql/t/001_basic.pl
@@ -367,4 +367,33 @@ psql_fails_like(
qr/incorrect interval value '10e400'/,
'\watch out-of-range interval');
+# Test \g output piped into a program.
+# The program is perl -pe '' to simply copy the input to the output.
+my $g_file = "$tempdir/g_file_1.out";
+my $perlbin = $^X;
+$perlbin =~ s!\\!/!g if $PostgreSQL::Test::Utils::windows_os;
+my $pipe_cmd = "$perlbin -pe '' >$g_file";
+
+psql_like($node, "SELECT 'one' \\g | $pipe_cmd", qr//, "one command \\g");
+my $c1 = slurp_file($g_file);
+like($c1, qr/one/);
+
+psql_like($node, "SELECT 'two' \\; SELECT 'three' \\g | $pipe_cmd", qr//, "two
commands \\g");
+my $c2 = slurp_file($g_file);
+like($c2, qr/two.*three/s);
+
+
+psql_like($node, "\\set SHOW_ALL_RESULTS 0\nSELECT 'four' \\; SELECT 'five'
\\g | $pipe_cmd", qr//,
+ "two commands \\g with only last result");
+my $c3 = slurp_file($g_file);
+like($c3, qr/five/);
+unlike($c3, qr/four/);
+
+psql_like($node, "copy (values ('foo'),('bar')) to stdout \\g | $pipe_cmd",
+ qr//,
+ "copy output passed to \\g pipe");
+my $c4 = slurp_file($g_file);
+like($c4, qr/foo.*bar/s);
+
+
done_testing();
