On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:17:41PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote: > test=# select * from foo; > a | b > ----+---- > 10 | 10 > 10 | 20 > > pgbash> retval=`select a,b from foo;` > pgbash> echo $retval > a | b ----+---- 10 | 10 10 | 20 (2 rows)
The way I usually do it in scripts is: psql '-F<tab>' -A -t -c "query" If there's only one field output you can drop the -F. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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