Re: where is the output

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Michael Fuhr wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:23:24 -0700
> From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
> To: ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr
> Cc: pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] where is the output
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:16:28PM +0100, ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr wrote:
> > Not sure it's the right group, but I've spent the afternoon googling and
> > trying on this.
> >
> > In PHP (Apache Module)
>
> pgsql-php might be more appropriate, or possibly a PHP mailing list.
Sure!
But I'd still like to know in that case (the same goes for C I guess)
where stdout is.
Why isn't it connected by default to the input of whatever connected by
dbconnect?
>
> > I try pg_exec("COPY blah TO STDOUT WITH blah");
> > It runs for ever...
> >
> > How can I get the output of COPY in PHP?
>
> At the libpq layer you'd use PQgetCopyData(); the only place I see
> a call to that function in the PHP 5.1.1 source code is in the
> pg_copy_to() function, which is for copying a table into an array.
>
> > Copy_from is not an option because the goal is to get a CSV file.
> > Writing and re-reading a file doesn't seem to be an option either because
> > of safe_mode.
>
> Could you use pg_copy_to() to read the table into an array and write
> each row of the array as CSV? I'm not sure if the following is the
> best way or even entirely correct, but it appears to work in PHP 5.1.1,
> even with safe_mode enabled:
>
> $rows = pg_copy_to($conn, "tablename");
> $fh = fopen("php://output", "w");
> foreach ($rows as $row) {
> fputcsv($fh, explode("\t", rtrim($row)));
> }
> fclose($fh);
>
> According to the PHP documentation fputcsv() is new as of 5.1.0RC1;
> for earlier versions you could probably find a module to generate
> CSV output.
>
>
Thanks for the tip. I found a function that does it!
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