On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 09:14 +0200, A. Kretschmer wrote:
> am Thu, dem 30.08.2007, um 14:59:06 +0800 mailte Ow Mun Heng folgendes:
> > Is there a way to do a dump of a database using a select statement?
>
> A complete database or just a simple table?
a simple table.. couple million records, want some of them for testing..
say ~100pcs
(right now, using insert into foo select * fromt able limit 10)
>
> >
> > eg: \copy trd to 'file' select * from table limit 10
>
> Since 8.2 you can use COPY (select * from table) TO 'file'.
superuser priviledge only right?
> Other solution, use a regular UNIX-Shell and psql, a la
>
> echo "select * from table limit 10;" | psql <database> > file
I want them to be in comma delimited format.. will the output be
importable again using \copy into pg?