Re: Exporting data from view

>
> I read recently about the efforts underway to COPY from a view,
> however I was wondering what the current best-practices are for being
> able to copy out of a view and import that data into an actual table
> elsewhere.  I am currently doing psql -c "SELECT ..." and the using a
> bit of perl to transform that into something copyable (i.e. CSV), but
> is there a way to directly export the data in an easily importable
> form?
>

psql -A -t -c "select * from ";


You can use -F to set the delimiter
            -o to specify an output file name (or just redirect stdout)

etc.

Try  man psql


To redirect it into a table,

"insert into table ....
 select .... ;"

between databases/systems


psql -d  -p  -A -t -c "select * from "; | psql ... "copy
from stdin...;"

can work, as the psql extract can be written to generate the same format
as copy from.


Brent Wood