Re: dynamic crosstab - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Reece Hart
Subject Re: dynamic crosstab
Date
Msg-id 1202935169.6510.43.camel@snafu
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In response to Re: dynamic crosstab  (Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>)
Responses Re: dynamic crosstab
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On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 14:04 +0100, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> Well after all you want a CSV not a table. You could shortcut this
> with a generic query which creates array out of your "columns"
> and join them to a CSV line. This would just be outputted as
> one single column from database.

Depending on your use case, this may be a better way:

In psql:
        => \copy (select col1,col2,col3 from data) TO data.csv CSV HEADER

or on the command line:
        $ psql -c '\copy (select col1,col2,col3 from data) TO data.csv CSV HEADER'

Strictly speaking, the CSV formatting isn't being done in the database
but rather by psql.

-Reece

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