Re: Exporting postgres query to CSV

A word of advice: if there is any chance that a column (e.g. text) contains
an embedded newline, you will be much better off outputting the data in
simple xml, instead of CSV.  This works very well with Excel for import.  I
just did a simple program for this recently.

Susan



                  
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                           05/09/2006 07:58
                  
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Greetings,

I am running postgres 7.4.7 on debian sarge.

I need to run an SQL query and store the results in a file.  The format
needs to be comma separated values (CSV), so I can import this later in
Excel.

Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

much appreciated,
Ryan


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