| From: | "Andrew G(dot) Hammond" <drew(at)xyzzy(dot)dhs(dot)org> |
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| To: | Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan(at)nsd(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [SQL] How to create crude report with psql and/or plpgsql |
| Date: | 2002-03-19 18:41:09 |
| Message-ID: | 20020319184109.GC23827@xyzzy.dhs.org |
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:33:13PM -0500, Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
> I do not need HTML, just plain text
So just do it in plain text then:
#!/bin/sh
echo <<END
This is plain text. It's not that hard.
END
psql --command 'SELECT * FROM foo' my_dbase
echo <<END
This is more plain text. Still pretty simple, eh?
END
You may also want to RTFM in the psql manual about \pset and the -f
option.
> or maybe PDF.
Please don't use bad words. PDF is a proprietary format. Beware.
> It would be nice if there was one extra level for RAISE as in:
> RAISE PRINT 'Whatever'
> That would not send the message the log but only to the console.
> One could do alot with that.
Something wrong with using
SELECT 'whatever';
or didn't you even read as far as the end of my first message?
> "Andrew G. Hammond" wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:07:58PM -0500, Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
> >
> > > I did not find any kind of print statement in psql or plpgsql.
> > > So, how can I create basic report with psql and/or plpgsql?
> > > Nothing fancy, page header/footer sub-totals per page.
> >
> > Errr... psql is a database query tool. There's not much available
> > for doing that kind of thing. That said, why not just write a
> > script to do it:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > echo <<END
> > <html><head><title>This is a title</title></head>
> > <body>
> > <!-- header -->
> > END
> >
> > # do the query
> > psql --html --command 'SELECT * FROM foo' my_dbase
> >
> > echo <<END
> > <!-- footer -->
> > </body></html>
> > END
> >
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