Re: Controlling psql output

-A -t worked great. Thanks !
-dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Chobot [mailto:bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 2:03 PM
To: Gauthier, Dave
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Controlling psql output

On Fri, 8 May 2009, Gauthier, Dave wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Using a single psql command to generate stdout in linux that will be redirected to a file. Many rows with 1 column are returned. I want no header, no footer, no blank lines at the top or bottom, no initial space before each record. This is what I'm trying...
>
> psql -P tuples_only=on,footer=off,border=0 mydb
>
> This gets rid of the header and footer OK. But there is still a blank line as the first line in stdout. Also, each record has a preceding space before the column value.
>
> Is there a way to do what I want?

Do you need to have the rows aligned? The -A flag may work for you, though
you might want to specify a different column seperator.