Re: Table to Excel

From: Greenhorn <user(dot)postgresql(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Nicholas I <nicholas(dot)domnic(dot)i(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Table to Excel
Date: 2009-03-27 16:27:37
Message-ID: ddcb1c340903270927if72fcf9je211e30156378db6@mail.gmail.com
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2009/3/26 Nicholas I <nicholas(dot)domnic(dot)i(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> Hi ,
>
>  Does any one how to convert table to excel.
>
>  I just tried the COPY table_name to '/home/user/output.xls' using
> delimiters ',';
>
> but the out put of the table that is the column in a table are tab separted,
> all were merged in a single cell.
>
> -Nicholas I
>

I find it easier to use the ODBC Driver (available at
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/psqlodbc/) and query the database from
Excel. This way you get updateable results (right click refresh data)
with the option of modifying your query from within Excel.

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