On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 13:20 -0500, Reid Thompson wrote: > 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 ^ sorry, forgot to set unaligned data mode.... tablename=>\a
