Re: How Copy from a view to CSV file - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: How Copy from a view to CSV file
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Msg-id 20100201183013.GA17685@tux
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In response to Re: How Copy from a view to CSV file  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> I think postgresql doesn't allow to copy from view to csv directly. Do
>> i have to create a temp table from the view and then copy that data to
>> the csv file??
>
> Right, you can only COPY directly from a table, not a view.  But you can
> copy out anything you can select, so this should work:
>
> COPY (SELECT * FROM temp_error_view) TO '/tmp/tempError.csv' USING
> DELIMITERS ',' WITH  CSV ;

But this works only with version 8.2+, not with 8.1 or lesser.


Andreas
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