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Re: Why doesn't COPY support the HEADER options for tab-separated output?

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Joe Van Dyk <joe@tanga.com>
Cc: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-08-12T21:21:32Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:15:25PM -0700, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> Mostly just curious, as this is preventing me from using tab-separated output.
> I'd like there to be a header in my files. I have to use CSVs instead.

[ "this" means the fact that COPY doesn't support the HEADER option. ]

We assume CSV is going to be read into a tool that can use the header
names;  delimited files don't usually have a use for those headers.

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