Re: Question about SQL statement error

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 12:37, Mário Gamito wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie at postgreSQL, although i have years of experience with MySQL.
>
> My question is (and i tried to found the answer):
> why this gives an error ?
>
> SELECT url_negado INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/urls_negados.txt' FROM urls_negados;
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

It isn't valid PostgreSQL syntax.  PostgreSQL tries to stick to SQL
standards as far as possible.  Use SELECT INTO to create a new table.

To dump to a flat file, use COPY:

  COPY urls_negado (url_negado) TO '/tmp/urls_negados.txt';

Nulls will be represented as \N

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