Re: psql record separator

From: Charley Tiggs <lists(at)tiggs(dot)net>
To: Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql record separator
Date: 2008-01-10 13:58:33
Message-ID: 47862489.4020407@tiggs.net
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Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> On 10/01/2008, Charley Tiggs <lists(at)tiggs(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> I added the "-A" switch and it output the string "\r\n" instead of an
>> actual CRLF.
>>
>> psql -A -R "\r\n" -t dbname username -c "select * from foo" > data_file.txt
> I can't tell you what the proper incantation is (I didn't manage to get
> it to play nice within 10 minutes), but how about a hackish solution like:
> psql -A -t dbname username -c "select * from foo"|todos > data_file.txt

I got it to work by using the actual character surrounded by quotes.
That's not ideal but at least I got the line endings I needed.

Charley

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