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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