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* Lead and tail quotes with \pset fieldsep
@ 2006-03-19 23:37 Bath, David <dave.bath@unix.net>
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From: Bath, David @ 2006-03-19 23:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-sql
Folks
If I want psql to generate CSV files fully-double-quoted I can
use pset as follows
psql> \pset fieldsep ","
However this does not put a quote before the first field and
after the last, so each row comes out as
1234","blahblah","sdfgsg","foo","bar
Is there a way to use psql to give rows like
1234","blahblah","sdfgsg","foo","bar
or is there another tool I should use.
COPY doesn't deal with views and restrictions well so it is
not an option.
Thanks in advance
--
David T. Bath
dave.bath@unix.net
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* Re: Lead and tail quotes with \pset fieldsep
@ 2006-03-20 01:14 Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
parent: Bath, David <dave.bath@unix.net>
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From: Bruce Momjian @ 2006-03-20 01:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dave.bath@unix.net; +Cc: pgsql-sql
Bath, David wrote:
> Folks
>
> If I want psql to generate CSV files fully-double-quoted I can
> use pset as follows
> psql> \pset fieldsep ","
> However this does not put a quote before the first field and
> after the last, so each row comes out as
> 1234","blahblah","sdfgsg","foo","bar
>
> Is there a way to use psql to give rows like
> 1234","blahblah","sdfgsg","foo","bar
> or is there another tool I should use.
>
> COPY doesn't deal with views and restrictions well so it is
> not an option.
Just do:
CREATE TEMP TABLE x AS SELECT * FROM view;
COPY ... x
Sorry that is the only way to dump CVS properly.
--
Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us
SRA OSS, Inc. http://www.sraoss.com
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