Re: [GENERAL] Setting the table separator in psql command mode - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Herouth Maoz
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Setting the table separator in psql command mode
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Msg-id l03110706b1a2e9d709d2@[147.233.159.109]
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In response to Setting the table separator in psql command mode  (Mehrdad Ghassempoory <ghassempoory@cardiff.ac.uk>)
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At 15:59 +0300 on 9/6/98, Mehrdad Ghassempoory wrote:


> I am trying to set up the table separator (Default "|") to TAB
> caharcter.
>
> I have tried :
>
> \f\t
> \f \t
> \f '\t'
>
> Without any luck.
> How is it done?

Seems impossible, for some reason. Why do you want to do that? The header
separator will be misaligned with the fields.

If you just want the data separated by tabs, you can use \copy. If you want
only some of the data, you can select it into a temporary table and then
use \copy.

Herouth

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