Re: Copy query results to a file

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 20:00, Eduardo Vázquez Rodríguez wrote:
> My purpose is to copy the results of a query to a file, how I do that?
>
> Thanks in advenced

$ psql -d mydb
mydb=# \o /path/to/file
mydb=# select ...;
mydb=# \o

In that case /path/to/file must be writable by the backend.

Alternatively,

$ psql -d mydb -c "select ..." > /path/to/file

If you are using Windows, the syntax of the latter method may be
different.

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