copy limited number of records

Howabout using SELECT INTO ... LIMIT ... to select into a temporary
table and then run COPY on it?

Lee.

Johnson, Shaunn writes:
> Running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on RedHat Linux 7.2.
>
> I'm using copy to create a bunch of flat files with delimiters
> and it's going okay. I've been asked, however, that the clients
> don't actually want ALL of the data in the table; perhaps about
> 100 or so records for testing.
>
> Is there a way to use limit while using the \copy command?
> (e.g., \copy t_test_tbl to '/usr/local/home/admin/dev_tbls' using delimiters
> ',' limit 10)
>
> I know the above doesn't work, but, perhaps there is a work around?
>