On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:54 +0100, peter pilsl wrote: > 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? > > thnx, > peter > tablename=>\pset fieldsep , tablename=>\pset recordsep ^
