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Is there an easy way to pipe a select statement's output to a file?

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On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:28:21PM -0500, Russ Schneider wrote:
Is there an easy way to pipe a select statement's output to a file?
In psql, type \? and look at what \o and \g do. They both do it but slightly
differently.

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Nov 22 '05 #2
That would depend on the client you're using. psql can do it either
directly (using \o) or by piping its output: psql -c "select * from
mytable;" mydb > out.txt

If you're using a programming library, I think you're on your own.

Adam Ruth

On Feb 8, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Russ Schneider wrote:
Is there an easy way to pipe a select statement's output to a file?

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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Russ Schneider wrote:
Is there an easy way to pipe a select statement's output to a file?


In psql you can use \o [filename] to direct query output to a file.
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