Re: ps_dump -a

--thanks for the reply:

--that could work, i'll give it a try now ...

--but now ... am i not clear as to what the '-a' is suppose
--to provide? shouldn't there be a text file with
--just data or is this a bug of some sort?

--thanks again!

-X

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Sullivan [mailto:andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:24:48AM -0500, Johnson, Shaunn wrote:
> Running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on RedHat Linux 7.2:
>
> I'm trying to do a "pg_dump -a -t t_table -d testdb > out.txt"
> and I'm still getting header information. How can I do
> a dump of data to a text file and not get information like
> the comments, Date for TOC Entry, Name, etc ... I just
> want the raw data. I've tried to pipe it through using
> tail, but I don't know if I'm missing the beginning of the
> file.

What about

pg_dump -a -t t_table -d testdb | grep -v "^--" > out.txt

? The grep will get rid of any line that begins with "-", which will
be a comment line.

A