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Re: [SQL] How to create crude report with psql and/or plpgsql

Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca>

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From: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca>
To: "Andrew G. Hammond" <drew@xyzzy.dhs.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-03-19T18:33:13Z
Lists: pgsql-general, pgsql-sql 
Hello Andrew,

I do not need HTML, just plain text or maybe PDF.

It would be nice if there was one extra level for RAISE as in:
RAISE PRINT 'Whatever' 
That would not send the message the log but only to the console.
One could do alot with that.

JLL


"Andrew G. Hammond" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:07:58PM -0500, Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
> 
> > I did not find any kind of print statement in psql or plpgsql.
> > So, how can I create basic report with psql and/or plpgsql?
> > Nothing fancy, page header/footer sub-totals per page.
> 
> Errr... psql is a database query tool.  There's not much available
> for doing that kind of thing.  That said, why not just write a
> script to do it:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> echo <<END
> <html><head><title>This is a title</title></head>
> <body>
> <!-- header -->
> END
> 
> # do the query
> psql --html --command 'SELECT * FROM foo' my_dbase
> 
> echo <<END
> <!-- footer -->
> </body></html>
> END
>