> On Jul 19, 2021, at 11:49 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/19/21 10:33 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> Until I finish building the python/tkinter/psycopg2 front end to my business
>> tracking tool I continue to work using the psql shell.'
>> I have a working .sql script that reports my contacts between two dates; the
>> script returns more columns than I want included in the report. I want to
>> pipe the output through an awk script to extract, in order, the columns I
>> need. I'm stuck at the point of defining options to psql.
>
> Is there a reason you can't just restrict the query to the columns you want?
>
Also had that thought but OP is wise to head the other switches for cleaner output. But also should probably get
familiarwith to-json options as well for easy pickup on the eventual client.
