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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:57:02 -0700
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Subject: Re: Setting the Field Separator in PSQL
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On 04/07/2015 02:52 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 2:48 PM, David G. Johnston
> <david.g.johnston@gmail.com <mailto:david.g.johnston@gmail.com>>wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Osborn, Marty <marty.osborn@rsa.com
>     <mailto:marty.osborn@rsa.com>>wrote:
>
>         I need to change the field separator to a tab in an input SQL
>         file.____
>
>         __ __
>
>         I’ve tried every combination of tab, ‘\t’, “\t”,
>         --field-separator=’\t’, etc, etc.____
>
>         __ __
>
>         Should it be in the command line or in the SQL file?____
>
>         ____
>
>         Any help?____
>
>
>
>     ​More context would helpful but keep in mind that within SQL the
>     expression:
>
>     '\t'  is a literal back-slash and a literal "t"
>
>     E'\t' is escaped to mean <tab>​
>
>     Dealing with the shell complicates the issue so if you can avoid it
>     I suggest that do avoid it.
>
>
> ​I should probably have tried my own advice first, and I still haven't,
> but the documentation states:
>
> "​"""
> fieldsep
> Specifies the field separator to be used in unaligned output format.
> That way one can create, for example, tab- or comma-separated output,
> which other programs might prefer. To set a tab as field separator, type
> \pset fieldsep '\t'. The default field separator is '|' (a vertical bar).
> ​"""​
>
> ​So I'm not sure if this report is user-error or documentation error.  A
> self-contained test case would help...

Well the OP was talking about an input file, so I my suspicion they are 
looking for something like \copy.

>
> David J.​
>


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