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ps_dump -a

From
"Johnson, Shaunn"
Date:

Running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on RedHat Linux 7.2:

I'm trying to do a "pg_dump -a -t t_table -d testdb > out.txt"
and I'm still getting header information.  How can I do
a dump of data to a text file and not get information like
the comments, Date for TOC Entry, Name, etc ... I just
want the raw data.  I've tried to pipe it through using
tail, but I don't know if I'm missing the beginning of the
file. 

Thanks!

-X

Re: ps_dump -a

From
Andrew Sullivan
Date:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:24:48AM -0500, Johnson, Shaunn wrote:
> Running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on RedHat Linux 7.2:
>
> I'm trying to do a "pg_dump -a -t t_table -d testdb > out.txt"
> and I'm still getting header information.  How can I do
> a dump of data to a text file and not get information like
> the comments, Date for TOC Entry, Name, etc ... I just
> want the raw data.  I've tried to pipe it through using
> tail, but I don't know if I'm missing the beginning of the
> file.

What about

pg_dump -a -t t_table -d testdb | grep -v "^--" > out.txt

?  The grep will get rid of any line that begins with "-", which will
be a comment line.

A

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Re: ps_dump -a

From
"Johnson, Shaunn"
Date:

--thanks for the reply:

--that could work, i'll give it a try now ...

--but now ... am i not clear as to what the '-a' is suppose
--to provide?  shouldn't there be a text file with
--just data or is this a bug of some sort?

--thanks again!

-X

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Sullivan [mailto:andrew@libertyrms.info]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:24:48AM -0500, Johnson, Shaunn wrote:
> Running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on RedHat Linux 7.2:
>
> I'm trying to do a "pg_dump -a -t t_table -d testdb > out.txt"
> and I'm still getting header information.  How can I do
> a dump of data to a text file and not get information like
> the comments, Date for TOC Entry, Name, etc ... I just
> want the raw data.  I've tried to pipe it through using
> tail, but I don't know if I'm missing the beginning of the
> file. 

What about

pg_dump -a -t t_table -d testdb | grep -v "^--" > out.txt

?  The grep will get rid of any line that begins with "-", which will
be a comment line.

A

Re: ps_dump -a

From
Andrew Sullivan
Date:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 03:59:18PM -0500, Johnson, Shaunn wrote:

> --but now ... am i not clear as to what the '-a' is suppose
> --to provide?  shouldn't there be a text file with
> --just data or is this a bug of some sort?

No, the "just data" doesn't have things like the create table
statements.  By default, those are in a dump.

A

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Andrew Sullivan                         204-4141 Yonge Street
Liberty RMS                           Toronto, Ontario Canada
<andrew@libertyrms.info>                              M2P 2A8
                                         +1 416 646 3304 x110