Re: \copy combine with SELECT

jia ding wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I tried:
> select id, name  into table2   from table1;
>  \copy table2 to filename.txt
> in order to export 2 columns from table1 to a file.
>
> But, I am thinking, if there is a command can combine these two command
> together?
> Maybe, something like: \copy select id,name  from table  to filename.txt

Close.

copy tablename field1, field2 to 'filename';

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/sql-copy.html

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