Greg Smith <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I think postgresql doesn't allow to copy from view to csv directly. Do >> i have to create a temp table from the view and then copy that data to >> the csv file?? > > Right, you can only COPY directly from a table, not a view. But you can > copy out anything you can select, so this should work: > > COPY (SELECT * FROM temp_error_view) TO '/tmp/tempError.csv' USING > DELIMITERS ',' WITH CSV ; But this works only with version 8.2+, not with 8.1 or lesser. Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889° -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general