On 4/1/20 1:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Consider some syntax along the lines of > > \gpset (pset-option-name [pset-option-value]) ... filename > > or if you don't like parentheses, choose some other punctuation to wrap > the \pset options in. I initially thought of square brackets, but I'm > afraid they might be just too darn confusing to document --- how could > you make them distinct from metasyntax square brackets, especially in > plain-ASCII docs? Also it'd have to be punctuation that's unlikely to > start a file name --- but parens are already reserved in most shells.
If parens are going to be required, why don't we just add them to \g? TABLE blah \g (format csv) filename -- Vik Fearing
