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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: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>, Joe Van Dyk <joe@tanga.com>, "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-08-15T12:20:05Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 09:25:07AM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
> On 12/08/13 23:18, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:17:00PM -0700, Jeff Janes wrote:
> >>On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >>>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.
> 
> Late to the discussion, but it does work to set format=csv and
> delimiter = E'\t' to get tab-separated. Be nice not to have to
> though.

I assume that is going to add quotes to a field that contains quotes:

	CREATE TABLE test(x TEXT);
	INSERT INTO test VALUES ('"a"');

	COPY test TO STDOUT WITH (FORMAT CSV, DELIMITER E'\t');
	"""a"""

I have added this to the TODO list:

	Allow COPY "text" format to output a header

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