Subject: ECPG and COPY TO STDOUT
From: Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com>
To: pgsql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:22:44 -0700
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If I use COPY TO STDOUT in an ECPG program, where does the output go?

If I use COPY TO '/tmp/foo', I get the file created, with the data in
it, but trying COPY TO STDOUT produces no output.

What I'm trying to do is to dump a table's data, and have the resulting
file owned by the application user rather than the dba user.

I would rather to not have to create the file in /tmp, copy contents, rm
/tmp file, if I don't have to.


This is the program I'm using:


#include <stdio.h>

EXEC SQL INCLUDE sqlca;
EXEC SQL WHENEVER SQLERROR sqlprint;

int main()
{

    EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
    char *fname = "/tmp/foo";
    EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;

    EXEC SQL CONNECT TO test;

    /* produces expected file "/tmp/foo" */
    EXEC SQL COPY foo TO :fname WITH DELIMITER ',';
    printf("copy to /tmp/foo : sqlca.sqlcode = %ld", sqlca.sqlcode);

    /* goes nowhere (?) */
    EXEC SQL COPY foo TO STDOUT WITH DELIMITER ',';
    printf("copy to STDOUT : sqlca.sqlcode = %ld\n", sqlca.sqlcode);

    EXEC SQL DISCONNECT;

    return 0;
}


-- 
Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com>