2011/10/21 Andrew Dunstan <andrew.duns...@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?

Pavel

>
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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