Rod Taylor wrote:
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 16:28 -0400, Bill Bartlett wrote:
Can't -- the main production database is over at a CoLo site with access
only available via SSH, and tightly-restricted SSH at that. Generally
one of the developers will SSH over to the server, pull out whatever
data is needed into a text file via psql or pg_dump, scp the file(s)
back here and send them to the user.
I don't get it. If you can use psql then you already have csv support.
psql -c 'COPY pg_class TO STDOUT WITH CSV' postgres > pg_class.csv
If you data looks like this:
foo barbaz bing
You are o.k. You have three columns, tab delimited.
However if you data looks like this:
foo bar baz bing
You have a problem.
foo is one column
bar and baz are a single column
bing is a single column
How does excel know that bar baz is a single column? It doesn't because
you told it to delimit on tabs and thus you have four columns as far as
Excel is concerned.
An alternative although I don't know what kind of headaches it would
cause is to have a text delimiter as well as a field delimter, e.g;
"foo" "bar baz" "bing"
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 4:15 PM
To: Bill Bartlett
Cc: 'Andrew Dunstan'; 'Tom Lane'; 'PG Hackers'
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CSV mode option for pg_dump
Bill Bartlett wrote:
Here's me speaking up -- I'd definitely use it! As a
quick way to pull
data into Excel to do basic reports or analysis, a CSV
format would be
great.
Why not just use ODBC?
Joshua D. Drake
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