On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 16:45, Scott Marlowe wrote: > Another option is to use your favorite scripting language and throw an > excel header then the data in tab delimited format. Or even in excel > xml format. Why would you need any scripting language ? COPY supports CSV output pretty well, it can even put you a header on the top. And 8.2 can COPY a SELECT too, so you can generate the CSV dump directly from joins too... on older systems I usually create a temporary table as the result of the join and then COPY that - plain SQL is all you need... I always did it this way when it comes to occasional data from/to excel. Now if it is about regularly exchanging data with excel, possibly using excel as a DB interface, probably ODBC is the only viable choice, but if the OP really needs a DB for the data, I would say using excel as the interface to it is likely a bad decision... Cheers, Csaba.
