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Export all tables including headers in a postgres database to a set of CSV files
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#!/bin/bash | |
DB_NAME="$USER" | |
DBMS_SHELL="psql" | |
DBMS_USER="postgres" | |
#if [ "$1" = '--help' ]; then | |
if [[ ( "$1" == '--help' ) || ( "$1" == '-h' ) ]]; then | |
echo "usage: $0 [DB_NAME] [DBMS_SHELL]" | |
echo "default DB_NAME is your username" | |
echo "default DBMS_SHELL is 'psql'" | |
echo "default DBMS_USER is 'postgres'" | |
exit 0 | |
fi | |
if [ -n "$1" ] | |
then DB_NAME="$1" | |
fi | |
if [ -n "$2" ] | |
then DBMS_SHELL="$2" | |
fi | |
if [ -n "$3" ] | |
then DBMS_USER="$3" | |
fi | |
alias echo='>&2 echo' | |
mkdir -p "$DB_NAME" | |
echo "Fetching table list ..." | |
$DBMS_SHELL "$DB_NAME" -U $DBMS_USER -c "copy (select table_name from information_schema.tables where table_schema='public') to STDOUT;" > "$DB_NAME/tables.txt" | |
dbms_success=$? | |
if ! [ $dbms_success ] | |
then exit 4 | |
fi | |
echo "Fetching tables ..." | |
readarray tables < "$DB_NAME/tables.txt" | |
for t in ${tables[*]}; do | |
$DBMS_SHELL -d "$DB_NAME" -U $DBMS_USER -c "copy (select * from $t) to STDOUT with delimiter ',' CSV HEADER;" > "$DB_NAME/$t.csv" | |
done |
Thanks. I'm really interesting to use this script but during execution, I got below. How to make it work?
Fetching table list ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_NZ:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Fetching tables ...
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This was very useful !! Thank you.