Re: copy/dump database to text/csv files

This is probably an easy one for most sql users but I don't use it very often.
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>We have a postgres database that was used for an application we no longer use. However, we would
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>like to copy/dump the tables to files, text or csv so we can post them to sharepoint.
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>Copy seems to be what I want. But it only does one table at a time. There is 204 tables with a schemaname=public. I need to be copy the tables with data to files. I need something like a for
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>loop which checks if the table is populated if so, copy it to tablename.csv file
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>Any ideas?

You could do it with pgpsql, or if your schema is too large generate a sript with it.

something like:

DO $$
DECLARE
test boolean;
rec record;
BEGIN
for rec in select tablename from pg_tables where schemaname = 'public'
LOOP
EXECUTE 'select exists (select * from public.'||rec.tablename||')' into test;
IF test THEN raise notice 'COPY public.% TO %.dump',rec.tablename,rec.tablename;
END IF;
END LOOP;
END;
$$ language plpgsql

regards,

Marc Mamin