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List:       postgresql-sql
Subject:    Re: [SQL] How to query by column names
From:       John Summerfield <postgres () herakles ! homelinux ! org>
Date:       2007-01-23 12:01:45
Message-ID: 45B5F929.8040205 () herakles ! homelinux ! org
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John Summerfield wrote:
> Jeff Frost wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Josh Williams wrote:
>>
>>> From: Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>
>>>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Richard Ray wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> That's definitely part of it.  I'm assuming the above is an abridged 
>>> example and the OP is doing something dynamic with the query.  The 
>>> real trouble is Bash likes to expand the asterisk into a list of 
>>> every file in the current directory when you try to push the command 
>>> through a variable.  So it's just a matter of finding a way to escape 
>>> the * 
> 
> Oh, good grief Charlie Brown:
> 
> backslash it:
> \*
> 
> so:
>     echo select \* from whatsit | psql test
Oh
echo select \* from whatsit \; | psql test

> 

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