Re: psql record separator - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Charley Tiggs
Subject Re: psql record separator
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Msg-id 47862489.4020407@tiggs.net
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In response to Re: psql record separator  ("Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@gmail.com>)
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Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> On 10/01/2008, Charley Tiggs <lists@tiggs.net> wrote:
>
>> I added the "-A" switch and it output the string "\r\n" instead of an
>> actual CRLF.
>>
>> psql -A -R "\r\n" -t dbname username -c "select * from foo" > data_file.txt
> I can't tell you what the proper incantation is (I didn't manage to get
> it to play nice within 10 minutes), but how about a hackish solution like:
> psql -A -t dbname username -c "select * from foo"|todos > data_file.txt

I got it to work by using the actual character surrounded by quotes.
That's not ideal but at least I got the line endings I needed.

Charley

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