Re: Field Separator not working?

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 11:43 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Mario Splivalo wrote:
> > pulitzer2=# \t
> > Showing only tuples.
> > pulitzer2=# \f#
> > Field separator is "#".
> > pulitzer2=# select * from pg_user;
> > mario | 1 | t | t | t | ******** |
>
> > psql does tell me that I changed the field separator to "#", but it
> > still uses "|" as separator. I'm parsing the script from bash, using
> > psql, and setting the field separator options on the command line, but I
> > get similair results, the field separator is always "|", so I need to
> > awk-it with -F, but sometimes I have problems because data in my tables
> > often contain "|" charachter.
>
> You'll want this too:
> \pset format unaligned
>
> man psql or see the manual for full details

Hopla. It works perfetcly, thnx. Sometimes we're lazy to trough-read the
manuals :)

Mario
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