Re: [GENERAL] Setting the table separator in psql command mode

At 15:59 +0300 on 9/6/98, Mehrdad Ghassempoory wrote:


> I am trying to set up the table separator (Default "|") to TAB
> caharcter.
>
> I have tried :
>
> \f\t
> \f \t
> \f '\t'
>
> Without any luck.
> How is it done?

Seems impossible, for some reason. Why do you want to do that? The header
separator will be misaligned with the fields.

If you just want the data separated by tabs, you can use \copy. If you want
only some of the data, you can select it into a temporary table and then
use \copy.

Herouth

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