Re: Copy command to handle view for my export requirement

Hi Andreas,

I tried the command as below. It failed. Please correct me.

\copy (select * from view1) to '/sample.csv' delimiters ',' csv header;
ERROR: \copy: parse error at "select"

Thanks and Regards,
Siva.

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Andreas Kretschmer
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 2:23 PM
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Copy command to handle view for my export requirement

Siva Palanisamy <siva_p(at)hcl(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I understand that copy and \copy commands in PostgreSQL work only for tables. I
> want it to export the data from varies tables. Instead, I can create a view for
> the list of tables. Can the copy or \copy commands be utilized to operate on
> views directly? Please let me know on this.

Sure, you can do that (with recent versions) with:

copy (select * from your_view) to ...

Andreas
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