hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:45:44AM -0700, Steve Crawford wrote: >> What's wrong with: >> \o '| gzip -c - > foo.gz' >> \d >> \o > it's too long. and it requires disabling. i'd like something that would > work exactly like unix pipe - send input of one command to another. The fact that it's possible now means that the case for adding syntax for it is extremely weak. You'd need to convince people that this is so useful that we should go to the trouble of figuring out how to shoehorn it into the syntax of every backslash command (and in at least some cases that'd be pretty tricky). Given that it never got requested before, I think it'll be hard to show that. regards, tom lane
