Re: Table to Excel - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: Table to Excel
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Msg-id 162867790903260930j6d5b256fs298a8c767cf4a92@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Table to Excel  (Josh Trutwin <josh@trutwins.homeip.net>)
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2009/3/26 Josh Trutwin <josh@trutwins.homeip.net>:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:04:25 +0100
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hello
>>
>> use csv format - excel have to read this format without any format
>>
>> COPY tablename TO '...' CSV;
>
> Another possibility that I use often is to set the output to HTML
> mode using:
>
> \H
>
> Then set to send query results to a file:
>
> \o myresults.html
>
> Then run a single query:
>
> SELECT col1, col2 FROM foo WHERE bar = '1' ORDER BY baz;
>
> \q
>
> Now you can open your .html file directly into Excel since it's just
> a big html table.
>

It is true, so you can use html, but html has significant overhead -
CVS is really simple format - designed for this case.

Pavel

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