Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Csaba Nagy wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 16:45, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>
>>> Another option is to use your favorite scripting language and throw
>>> an excel header then the data in tab delimited format. Or even in
>>> excel xml format.
>>>
>>
>> Why would you need any scripting language ? COPY supports CSV output
>> pretty well, it can even put you a header on the top.
>
> Because I'm delivering reports to dozens of people who have windows, no
> psql client, and just want to go to a web page, click a button, and get
> their report (or was that a banana?)
If you make psql with the \H option output html, excel will open it
directly.
>
> I guess I could give them an account on the reporting server and a copy
> of pgadmin or something, but most of them are happier with a web page
> and a set of buttons.
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