On Monday, March 16, 2015, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:David G. Johnston wrote:
> Thanks! I got the gist even with the typo. I actually pondered about
> prepare/execute after hitting send. Am I correct in remembering that
> "CREATE TEMP TABLE" cannot be prepared? I was using the actual query with
> CREATE TEMP TABLE and then issuing "\copy" to dump the result out to the
> file. The limitation of copy to having to be written on a single line
> makes the intermediary temporary table seem almost a necessity.
CREATE TEMP TABLE AS EXECUTE
Thanks.Though unless I need to work on the temp table I think:PREPARE ...;\copy (EXECUTE ...) TO '~/temp.csv' ...;Gives the best of all worlds.
Except that server "COPY" only is documented to accept a "query" that begins with either SELECT or VALUES :(
I hereby voice my desire for EXECUTE to be usable as well.
David J.
