Bath, David wrote:
> Folks
>
> If I want psql to generate CSV files fully-double-quoted I can
> use pset as follows
> psql> \pset fieldsep ","
> However this does not put a quote before the first field and
> after the last, so each row comes out as
> 1234","blahblah","sdfgsg","foo","bar
>
> Is there a way to use psql to give rows like
> 1234","blahblah","sdfgsg","foo","bar
> or is there another tool I should use.
>
> COPY doesn't deal with views and restrictions well so it is
> not an option.
Just do:
CREATE TEMP TABLE x AS SELECT * FROM view;COPY ... x
Sorry that is the only way to dump CVS properly.
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