Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > After re-reading what I just wrote to Andreas about how compression of
> > COPY data would be better done outside the backend than inside, it
> > struck me that we are missing a feature that's fairly common in Unix
> > programs.  Perhaps COPY ought to have the ability to pipe its output
> > to a shell command, or read input from a shell command.  Maybe something
> > like
> > 
> >     COPY mytable TO '| gzip >/home/tgl/mytable.dump.gz';

For use case, consider this:

        COPY mytable TO '| rsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > test ';

so you can COPY to another server directly.

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