Re: dumping query results to a csv

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On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:48:54PM -0700, Adi Alurkar wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> There is no direct way to achieve what you want, the easiest hack is  
> to create a temp table with you query i.e.
> 
> create table tmp_foo as select col1, col4, col7 from table1, table2  
> where  ....;
> copy table tmp_foo to [stdout|<file_name>]

Can we make this a TODO? It would certainly be handy to be able to COPY
directly from a query.

In the mean time, you can also do something like

SELECT field1 || ',' || field2 || ',' || field3

and capture the output of that to a file, but that's an uglier hack than
the temptable trick.
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Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant      jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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