>
> Is it possible in postgresQL to get a query to return only values
> without the usual column identifiers header and number of results footer
> lines?
>
> I'm trying to pipe the output of a command line query and the
> header/footers are causing problems :)
>
you can fine tune the format of query results in psql wiht \pset, eg.
\pset unaligned
\pset fieldsep |
\pset tuples_only
See the man page of psql for details.
Christoph Dalitz