Hi Tom, It appears to me that the documentation suggests that: -P fieldsep='\t' should work, but I don't think it does. Tom Lane-2 wrote: > > chrisj <chrisj.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> This helped a lot, but ideally I want a tab field delimiter and -F '\t' >> does >> not seem to work, any ideas?? > > I don't think there's any provision for backslash-notation in that > switch; you'd need to type an actual tab character there. Depending on > what shell you use, that might be a bit difficult on an interactive > shell command line, but it should be simple enough to insert one in a > script file. > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/selective-export-for-subsequent-import-%28COPY%29-tf3604927.html#a10102249 Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.