Thread: Writing to a flat file using procedures

Writing to a flat file using procedures

From

"Nalin Bakshi"

Date:

11 February 2006, 04:19:27

Hi!

My project requires me to fetch some data from a a table and write it into a flat file. How can I do this. Could you help?

regards,

Nalin.

Re: Writing to a flat file using procedures

From

"Jim C. Nasby"

Date:

11 February 2006, 23:10:57

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:48:08AM +0530, Nalin Bakshi wrote:
> Hi!
>     My project requires me to fetch some data from a a table and write it into a flat file. How can I do this. Could
youhelp? 
> regards,

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-copy.html
See also \copy on
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/app-psql.html , which
removes the need for the file to be writable by the back-end.
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