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Postgres – Export a Table to CVS File

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# In the postgres console or pgAdmin
#-h: host
#-p: port
#-U: database user
#-d: database name

psql -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5432 -U database_user -d database_name

\COPY (SELECT * FROM mytable) TO E'/home/a/data/export.csv' CSV DELIMITER ',';


One Liner from the command line
# CSV

psql -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5432 -U database_user -d database_name -c "COPY (SELECT * FROM mytable) TO E'/home/a/data/export.csv' CSV DELIMITER ',';"


# Header
psql -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5432 -U database_user -d database_name -c "COPY (select column_a,column_b from mytable limit 10) TO STDOUT WITH CSV HEADER;" > home/a/data/export.csv

References

1. https://coderwall.com/p/jwtxjg