Re: Exporting postgres query to CSV

On Tue, 09 May 2006 10:58:07 -0400
Ryan Suarez <ryan(dot)suarez(at)sheridanc(dot)on(dot)ca> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I am running postgres 7.4.7 on debian sarge.
>
> I need to run an SQL query and store the results in a file. The
> format needs to be comma separated values (CSV), so I can import this
> later in Excel.
>
> Any ideas on how to accomplish this?
>
> much appreciated,
> Ryan
>
>
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Ryan,

Two tips.

First:
psql -U <PGSQL USER> -o <OUPUT FILE NAME> --pset format=unaligned
--pset fieldsep=',' -c '<SQL COMMAND HERE>' -d <DATABASE NAME HERE>

I think that will give you the output you were after assuming you're
scripting psql and that you replace the values in <> with appropriate
values. The syntax is slightly different from the psql command line.

Second:
man psql is your friend.

John Purser