exporting quoted CSV data from a query - Mailing list pgsql-general

From George Pavlov
Subject exporting quoted CSV data from a query
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Is there a way to export the output of an arbitrary SQL query to a
quoted CSV file?

It seems that the COPY command can do that for regular tables (COPY foo
TO STDOUT WITH CSV QUOTE AS '"') but not for a query result. I could
create temp tables in a script but it seems that there should be a
simpler alternative.

The command-line psql can obviously be used with an arbitrary query, but
seems to fail on the quoting part--am I missing some option to psql that
would put quotes around fields that contain the quote character,
newlines, etc.?

What I am looking for is essentially a command-line alternative to the
pgAdmin export's "quoting" options.

George

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