Thanks Brent, very much appreciated, your first suggestion is perfect. the translate suggestion assumes that there are no commas in the data, but that is why I wanted to use tab. again, thanks a lot!! Brent Wood wrote: > > chrisj wrote: >> 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. >> >> > > You can always have a text file (file.sql): > > \pset ... > select ..... > > > the run the commands is a single client connection with > > psql database -Atf file.sql > > This runs a file of sql commands in a single psql connection instead of > opening a new connection for every -c "" command. > Thus the result of the \pset is still in force when the next sql > statement is executed. > > or run your command as it is & pipe the output through tr to translate > the commas to tabs. > You can see what tr does using > echo "1,2" | tr "," "\t" > > eg: > psql $DATABASEHOST -U $DATABASEUSER -d $DATABASE -q -P footer -A -F , -c > "$DETAIL_SQL" | tr "," "\t" >table.csv > > > Cheers, > > Brent Wood > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/selective-export-for-subsequent-import-%28COPY%29-tf3604927.html#a10101989 Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
