| From: | Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan(at)nsd(dot)ca> |
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| To: | "Andrew G(dot) Hammond" <drew(at)xyzzy(dot)dhs(dot)org> |
| 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 18:33:13 |
| Message-ID: | 3C978469.38387B8C@nsd.ca |
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Hello Andrew,
I do not need HTML, just plain text or maybe PDF.
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.
JLL
"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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