Re: Copy command to handle view for my export requirement

From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Copy command to handle view for my export requirement
Date: 2011-08-11 08:53:06
Message-ID: 20110811085306.GA16186@tux
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Siva Palanisamy <siva_p(at)hcl(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I understand that copy and \copy commands in PostgreSQL work only for tables. I
> want it to export the data from varies tables. Instead, I can create a view for
> the list of tables. Can the copy or \copy commands be utilized to operate on
> views directly? Please let me know on this.

Sure, you can do that (with recent versions) with:

copy (select * from your_view) to ...

Andreas
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