Export PostgreSQL table to CSV [COPY command]


As PostgreSQL COPY command is convenient, I wrote this tips.
This command is easy and really useful, so please try it.

$ psql
-- Export product table to CSV file
\copy (SELECT * FROM products ORDER BY id) TO '/tmp/produccts.csv' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER
# If you want to see the csv including Shift-JIS(Japanese)
nkf -s /tmp/products.csv > /tmp/converted.csv

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