On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:17:41PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> test=# select * from foo;
> a | b
> ----+----
> 10 | 10
> 10 | 20
>
> pgbash> retval=`select a,b from foo;`
> pgbash> echo $retval
> a | b ----+---- 10 | 10 10 | 20 (2 rows)
The way I usually do it in scripts is:
psql '-F<tab>' -A -t -c "query"
If there's only one field output you can drop the -F.
Have a nice day,
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> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.