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

Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>

From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>, Joe Van Dyk <joe@tanga.com>, "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-08-15T08:25:07Z
Lists: pgsql-general
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.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd