New Tool: SQL to CSV

Posted by Spencer on April 12th, 2017

I write a lot of SQL queries at work and, quite regularly, find myself exporting them to CSV files. PostgreSQL’s command line client, psql, has a command to handle this task – \COPY – that you can use to output the results of a SELECT statement to a local CSV file. It looks like this:

\COPY (SELECT * FROM foo) TO '~/output.csv' CSV

That works well, but it’s tedious to constantly convert commented, indented SQL into a one-line COPY command. Sure, I could create a macro in my text editor to handle this. Since I’m probably not the only person annoyed by this though, I created a simple tool anyone can use to automate the conversion: SQL to CSV. Give it a try!

Screenshot of SQL to CSV tool

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