pg_dump & SQL statements

I regularly need to unload some rows from tables, and load into different
databases, sometimes on different hosts. In simple cases, I can do
something like:

psql -At -d dbname -c "select from table where...."

Due to some embedded tabs and other anomalies in our data, we then have to
pipe the output to a perl script that transforms the wierdness (like
tabs/crlf).

pg_dump handles all this perfectly, but cannot be used because it dumps an
entire table.
I read the code for pg_dump, and it appears it handles the problem by
looking at every character, less than a " ", it converts to an octal character.

Has anyone considered hacking pg_dump so I could send it a "select
....."? If not, could I please put this on the wish list?

Naomi

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