I need to change the field separator to a tab in an input SQL file.
I’ve tried every combination of tab, ‘\t’, “\t”, --field-separator=’\t’, etc, etc.
Should it be in the command line or in the SQL file?
Any help?
More context would helpful but keep in mind that within SQL the expression:
'\t' is a literal back-slash and a literal "t"
E'\t' is escaped to mean <tab>
Dealing with the shell complicates the issue so if you can avoid it I suggest that do avoid it.
I should probably have tried my own advice first, and I still haven't, but the documentation states:
""""
fieldsep
Specifies the field separator to be used in unaligned output format. That way one can create, for example, tab- or comma-separated output, which other programs might prefer. To set a tab as field separator, type \pset fieldsep '\t'. The default field separator is '|' (a vertical bar).
"""
So I'm not sure if this report is user-error or documentation error. A self-contained test case would help...
