From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: mario.splivalo@mobart.hr
Cc: PostgresSQL list <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Field Separator not working?
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:43:10 +0100
Message-ID: <4356233E.4040700@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1129717152.3186.5.camel@ekim>
References: <1129717152.3186.5.camel@ekim>
Mario Splivalo wrote:
> pulitzer2=# \t
> Showing only tuples.
> pulitzer2=# \f#
> Field separator is "#".
> pulitzer2=# select * from pg_user;
> mario | 1 | t | t | t | ******** |
> psql does tell me that I changed the field separator to "#", but it
> still uses "|" as separator. I'm parsing the script from bash, using
> psql, and setting the field separator options on the command line, but I
> get similair results, the field separator is always "|", so I need to
> awk-it with -F, but sometimes I have problems because data in my tables
> often contain "|" charachter.
You'll want this too:
\pset format unaligned
man psql or see the manual for full details
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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