On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:07:58PM -0500, Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
> I did not find any kind of print statement in psql or plpgsql.
> So, how can I create basic report with psql and/or plpgsql?
> Nothing fancy, page header/footer sub-totals per page.
Errr... psql is a database query tool. There's not much available
for doing that kind of thing. That said, why not just write a
script to do it:
#!/bin/sh
echo <<END
<html><head><title>This is a title</title></head>
<body>
<!-- header -->
END
# do the query
psql --html --command 'SELECT * FROM foo' my_dbase
echo <<END
<!-- footer -->
</body></html>
END
Of course if you really insist on doing it in psql, you could just
write SELECT statements that select a preset string. Ugly, but
it would work:
SELECT '<html><head><title>... '::text;
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