Re: fied separator change from the shell command line

paulo.oliveira@engineer.com writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to change the usal "|" table field separator from the shell
> command line:
> psql -d ect -f pl_lost.sql -o pl_lost.out.txt  -F "\t" -U asaadmin
>
> But it doesn't work. It keeps the same "|" separator in the output
> file.
> Can anyone please help me?
> I need to output to a tab separated file. Can anynone hel me with this?
>
> Thanks in advance,

Changing the field separator only works with unaligned output. You
need to add a -A to your command line switches (or --no-align). Doing
this, though, drops the column headers.


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