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From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: Combining \i and \copy in psql
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In response to Combining \i and \copy in psql  ("Rhys A.D. Stewart" <rhys.stewart@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 8:30 AM, Rhys A.D. Stewart <rhys.stewart@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,

I have a query in a .sql file and I'd like to use \i to execute it and
\copy to save it to a csv file. Is there any way to combine the two?

Something along the lines of:

\copy \i myquery.sql to 'output.csv'

​Maybe try something like:

\o output.csv
COPY (
\i myquery.sql
) TO stdout;
\o
​
You'll need to use COPY if you want to mix in \i with a query that would otherwise operate as a standard select query.

David J.

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