I need to export several tables as csv. I use the \f-command to set the seperator and pipe the output of my select directly to a file.
Unfortunately thats all the control I have over the created csv-file. I cannot set the field-delimiter and - which is critical to me - I cannot set an alternate record-seperator (newline at the moment). The latter is important to me cause many of my fields-values have \n or \r in it, so the csv-import-filter has a hard time to distinguish the record-seperator from a newline inside the data.
On the server I've postgres7.2, so the COPY-command does not know about the CSV-option yet (not does the postgres 8).
Is there any ready tool to create flexible csv-files or any trick I did not find out yet?
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