Thanks Alan, This helped a lot, but ideally I want a tab field delimiter and -F '\t' does not seem to work, any ideas?? I noticed one other post on this same problem of the fieldsep '\t' not working but the only advise offered was to use \pset. Can \pset be used on the command line, I can only get it to work within the psql command processor. Harvey, Allan AC wrote: > > Chris, > >> I know about: psql dbname -tc "select * from tableX where whatever" > >> tableX.dat > > What about > psql $DATABASEHOST -U $DATABASEUSER -d $DATABASE -q -P footer -A -F , -c > "$DETAIL_SQL" >table.csv > > To produce a comma separated file of tuples only. > If I'm not mistaken, as happens quite a bit, you can then use COPY to > import the csv file. > > Allan > > > The material contained in this email may be confidential, privileged or > copyrighted. If you are not the intended recipient, use, disclosure or > copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this > document in error, please advise the sender and delete the document. > Neither OneSteel nor the sender accept responsibility for any viruses > contained in this email or any attachments. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/selective-export-for-subsequent-import-%28COPY%29-tf3604927.html#a10090719 Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
