+html output

cheat/cheatsheets/psql

@@ -1,21 +1,26 @@
-#psql is the PostgreSQL terminal interface. The following commands were tested on version 9.5.
+# psql is the PostgreSQL terminal interface. The following commands were tested on version 9.5.
-#Connection options:
+# Connection options:
-#-U username (if not specified current OS user is used).
+# -U username (if not specified current OS user is used).
-#-p port.
+# -p port.
-#-h server hostname/address.
+# -h server hostname/address.
 
-#Connect to a specific database:
+# Connect to a specific database:
 psql -U postgres -h serverAddress -d dbName
 
-#Get databases on a server:
+# Get databases on a server:
 psql -U postgres -h serverAddress --list
 
-#Execute sql query and save output to file:
+# Execute sql query and save output to file:
-#Add -t to get only rows as result.
+psql -U postgres -d dbName -c 'select * from tableName;' -o fileName
-psql -U postgres -d dbName -c 'select * from tableName;' -o 'fileName'
 
-Read commands from file:
+# Execute query and get tabular html output:
+psql -U postgres -d dbName -H -c 'select * from tableName;'
+
+# Execute query and save resulting rows to csv file:
+psql -U postgres -d dbName -t -A -P fieldsep=',' -c 'select * from tableName;' -o fileName.csv
+
+# Read commands from file:
 psql -f fileName
 
-#Restore databases from file:
+# Restore databases from file:
-psql -f /fileName.backup postgres
+psql -f fileName.backup postgres