On Thu, 2025-09-04 at 18:01 +1200, Edwin UY wrote: > I don't have access to run copy as this is a RDS database so I can only use \copy. > I need to send the output to csv. > One of the fields has a special character = \r. I can see it visually. > > Running the \copy below gives me extra row/s because of the \r > \copy ( select * from blah where blah_ref = '666' order by date_created desc limit 5; ) to 'abc.csv' WITH CSV DELIMITER ',' HEADER > > I have tried this > \copy ( select * from blah where blah_ref = '666' order by date_created desc limit 5; ) to 'abc.csv' WITH (FORMAT CSV, HEADER, ESCAPE '\r'); > > But it gives ERROR: COPY escape must be a single one-byte character. > > Besides using a view for the SQL, as suggested when I do a web search, any chance someone here knows how to do it without using a view?
There is no problem with having the carriage return characters in the CSV output, but if you'd rather do without them, you could trim them:
\copy (SELECT trim(textcol, E'\u000d'), othercol, ... FROM tab ...) TO ...
In order to include escape sequences into a string literal, you have to prepend the opening single quote with an "E" for "extended":
