| From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Joe Van Dyk <joe(at)tanga(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Why doesn't COPY support the HEADER options for tab-separated output? |
| Date: | 2013-08-12 22:05:42 |
| Message-ID: | CAHyXU0zTJXavvcf4bm5yd3P-LsMFgt8x7n0oCeyiM1C8xtgWiw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:15:25PM -0700, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>> Mostly just curious, as this is preventing me from using tab-separated output.
>> I'd like there to be a header in my files. I have to use CSVs instead.
>
> [ "this" means the fact that COPY doesn't support the HEADER option. ]
>
> We assume CSV is going to be read into a tool that can use the header
> names; delimited files don't usually have a use for those headers.
that's a terrible assumption.
merlin
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