Re: \copy combine with SELECT

From: "jia ding" <dingjia(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Chris <dmagick(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: \copy combine with SELECT
Date: 2006-03-16 09:46:08
Message-ID: 91ae6e350603160146x1bf2981en21b9a33d4915dec0@mail.gmail.com
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yes, of couse COPY

but,
=> copy test to 'test.txt';
ERROR: must be superuser to COPY to or from a file
HINT: Anyone can COPY to stdout or from stdin. psql's \copy command also
works for anyone.

On 3/16/06, Chris <dmagick(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> jia ding wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I tried:
> > select id, name into table2 from table1;
> > \copy table2 to filename.txt
> > in order to export 2 columns from table1 to a file.
> >
> > But, I am thinking, if there is a command can combine these two command
> > together?
> > Maybe, something like: \copy select id,name from table to filename.txt
>
> Close.
>
> copy tablename field1, field2 to 'filename';
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/sql-copy.html
>
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