Re: [GENERAL] Setting the table separator in psql command mode

JohnDz <john_dzilvelis@sunserv1.valpak.com>

From: JohnDz <john_dzilvelis@sunserv1.valpak.com>
To: Mehrdad Ghassempoory <ghassempoory@cardiff.ac.uk>, PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1998-06-09T09:51:08Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Mehrdad Ghassempoory wrote:
> 
> I am trying to set up the table separator (Default "|") to TAB
> caharcter.
> 
> I have tried :
> 
> \f\t
> \f \t
> \f '\t'
> 
> Without any luck.
> How is it done?

I found that the following works:

psql -F '	' yourdatabasename

where a tab character is inserted in between the ' ' 



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|John Dzilvelis                                                 |
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