Обсуждение: Exporting postgres query to CSV
Greetings, I am running postgres 7.4.7 on debian sarge. I need to run an SQL query and store the results in a file. The format needs to be comma separated values (CSV), so I can import this later in Excel. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? much appreciated, Ryan
On Tue, 09 May 2006 10:58:07 -0400 Ryan Suarez <ryan.suarez@sheridanc.on.ca> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am running postgres 7.4.7 on debian sarge. > > I need to run an SQL query and store the results in a file. The > format needs to be comma separated values (CSV), so I can import this > later in Excel. > > Any ideas on how to accomplish this? > > much appreciated, > Ryan > > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your > friend Ryan, Two tips. First: psql -U <PGSQL USER> -o <OUPUT FILE NAME> --pset format=unaligned --pset fieldsep=',' -c '<SQL COMMAND HERE>' -d <DATABASE NAME HERE> I think that will give you the output you were after assuming you're scripting psql and that you replace the values in <> with appropriate values. The syntax is slightly different from the psql command line. Second: man psql is your friend. John Purser
A word of advice: if there is any chance that a column (e.g. text) contains
an embedded newline, you will be much better off outputting the data in
simple xml, instead of CSV. This works very well with Excel for import. I
just did a simple program for this recently.
Susan
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Greetings,
I am running postgres 7.4.7 on debian sarge.
I need to run an SQL query and store the results in a file. The format
needs to be comma separated values (CSV), so I can import this later in
Excel.
Any ideas on how to accomplish this?
much appreciated,
Ryan
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SCassidy@overlandstorage.com wrote: > A word of advice: if there is any chance that a column (e.g. text) contains > an embedded newline, you will be much better off outputting the data in > simple xml, instead of CSV. This works very well with Excel for import. I > just did a simple program for this recently. If the csv generator correctly quotes values containing quotes, commas and newlines, Excel is going to be happy with the csv file as well /Nis
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:57:57AM -0700, John Purser wrote: > > I am running postgres 7.4.7 on debian sarge. > First: > psql -U <PGSQL USER> -o <OUPUT FILE NAME> --pset format=unaligned > --pset fieldsep=',' -c '<SQL COMMAND HERE>' -d <DATABASE NAME HERE> > > I think that will give you the output you were after assuming you're > scripting psql and that you replace the values in <> with appropriate > values. The syntax is slightly different from the psql command line. > > Second: > man psql is your friend. Third: 7.4.7 is ancient and suffers from a number of data loss bugs. If you need to stick with 7.4 you should at least be running the most current version. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461