Re: How Copy from a view to CSV file

Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> I think postgresql doesn't allow to copy from view to csv directly. Do
>> i have to create a temp table from the view and then copy that data to
>> the csv file??
>
> Right, you can only COPY directly from a table, not a view. But you can
> copy out anything you can select, so this should work:
>
> COPY (SELECT * FROM temp_error_view) TO '/tmp/tempError.csv' USING
> DELIMITERS ',' WITH CSV ;

But this works only with version 8.2+, not with 8.1 or lesser.

Andreas
--
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely
unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds)
"If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown)
Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889°