Re: Setting the Field Separator in PSQL

On 04/07/2015 02:52 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 2:48 PM, David G. Johnston
> <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>>wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Osborn, Marty <marty(dot)osborn(at)rsa(dot)com
> <mailto:marty(dot)osborn(at)rsa(dot)com>>wrote:
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> I need to change the field separator to a tab in an input SQL
> file.____
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> I’ve tried every combination of tab, ‘\t’, “\t”,
> --field-separator=’\t’, etc, etc.____
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> Should it be in the command line or in the SQL file?____
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> Any help?____
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> ​More context would helpful but keep in mind that within SQL the
> expression:
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> '\t' is a literal back-slash and a literal "t"
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> E'\t' is escaped to mean <tab>​
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> Dealing with the shell complicates the issue so if you can avoid it
> I suggest that do avoid it.
>
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> ​I should probably have tried my own advice first, and I still haven't,
> but the documentation states:
>
> "​"""
> fieldsep
> Specifies the field separator to be used in unaligned output format.
> That way one can create, for example, tab- or comma-separated output,
> which other programs might prefer. To set a tab as field separator, type
> \pset fieldsep '\t'. The default field separator is '|' (a vertical bar).
> ​"""​
>
> ​So I'm not sure if this report is user-error or documentation error. A
> self-contained test case would help...

Well the OP was talking about an input file, so I my suspicion they are
looking for something like \copy.

>
> David J.​
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