On 2013-01-31, Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> I'd like to understand what I'm missing when I COPY a table to a .csv file
> but the text is not quoted.
>
> Here's an example of a command:
>
> copy chemistry to '/home/postgres/emapchem.csv' with (format CSV, header True, quote '"', delimiter '|');
>
> and here're part of the header and following row of the output:
>
> siteid|sampdate|analdate|ph|cond|turb|tss|doc|dic|p|se|ca|mg|na|k|nh4|so4|no3
> 1993SBOIA049|2004-06-28|2004-06-28|7.67|117|4.21|6.1|1.13|11.96|40|0.2|503.5|206.2
>
> I'm sure it's something simple in the syntax I keep getting wrong, but I
> don't see it.
Quotes are optional in csv except for strings containg linebreaks, quotes,
or delimiters where they are required.
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