Re: Simple Unload

From: Bricklen Anderson <banderson(at)presinet(dot)com>
To: Naomi Walker <nwalke(at)eldocomp(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Simple Unload
Date: 2006-12-11 21:19:05
Message-ID: 457DCB49.300@presinet.com
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Naomi Walker wrote:
> From time to time, I need to unload rows to a delimited file,
> specifically with a "where" clause.
> I've cobbled a script together to do this, but it seems like a
> reasonable utility to support. Sort
> of a pg_dump on steroids..
>
> Have I missed the simple way to do this? Would someone consider adding
> such a utility or adding
> this to pg_dump?
>
> Naomi

8.2 COPY appears to be able to output in csv format, using a WHERE
clause, though I've not tried it.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-copy.html

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