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Subject: Re: copy to program with format binary
From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 08:39:34 -0600
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Thank you!

I was staring at the docs and just totally missing the '('...

Small oddity though, I tried the 'encoding' option same as I tried =
format, without the parens, and it worked--which really threw me off.

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Scott Ribe
scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottribe/


> On Sep 27, 2021, at 8:33 AM, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> =
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> On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 08:24 -0600, Scott Ribe wrote:
>> Are the "to program" and binary format not compatible?
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>> copy msgs (msg) to program 'bzip2 > /...' with format binary
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>> gives me a syntax error at "format"
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>> Trying older-style syntax without "with" does the same thing.
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> The correct syntax is:
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> COPY msgs (msg) TO PROGRAM 'bzip2 > /...' WITH (FORMAT 'binary');
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> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
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> Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com
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