| From: | Ben Chobot <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Gauthier, Dave" <dave(dot)gauthier(at)intel(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Controlling psql output |
| Date: | 2009-05-08 18:02:54 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.64.0905081101400.2388@localhost.localdomain |
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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.
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