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Add Export Query Results To A CSV as a postgres til.

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- [Default Schema](postgres/default-schema.md)
- [Defining Arrays](postgres/defining-arrays.md)
- [Edit Existing Functions](postgres/edit-existing-functions.md)
- [Export Query Results To A CSV](postgres/export-query-results-to-a-csv.md)
- [Extracting Nested JSON Data](postgres/extracting-nested-json-data.md)
- [Find The Data Directory](postgres/find-the-data-directory.md)
- [Fizzbuzz With Common Table Expressions](postgres/fizzbuzz-with-common-table-expressions.md)

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# Export Query Results To A CSV
Digging through the results of queries in Postgres's `psql` is great if you
are a programmer, but eventually someone without the skills or access may
need to check out that data. Exporting the results of a query to CSV is a
friendly way to share said results because most people will have a program
on their computer that can read a CSV file.
For example, exporting all your pokemon to `/tmp/pokemon_dump.csv` can be
accomplished with:
```sql
copy (select * from pokemons) to '/tmp/pokemon_dump.csv' csv;
```
Because we are grabbing the entire table, we can just specify the table name
instead of using a subquery:
```sql
copy pokemons to '/tmp/pokemon_dump.csv' csv;
```
Include the column names as headers to the CSV file with the `header`
keyword:
```sql
copy (select * from pokemons) to '/tmp/pokemon_dump.csv' csv header;
```
[source](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1120109/export-postgres-table-to-csv-file-with-headings)