Chris,
> I know about: psql dbname -tc "select * from tableX where whatever" >
> tableX.dat
What about
psql $DATABASEHOST -U $DATABASEUSER -d $DATABASE -q -P footer -A -F , -c "$DETAIL_SQL" >table.csv
To produce a comma separated file of tuples only.
If I'm not mistaken, as happens quite a bit, you can then use COPY to import the csv file.
Allan
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