> On Oct 29, 2018, at 1:37 PM, David G. Johnston <david.g.johns...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:30 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
> <mailto:rshep...@appl-ecosys.com>> wrote:
> willamette-river-hg-# \out data-summary-by-form.txt
> willamette-river-hg-# select param, site_nbr, sampdate, min(quant),
> max(quant), unit from concentrations group by param, site_nbr, sampdate, unit
> order by param, site_nbr, sampdate, unit;
>
> The "-#" prompt in psql means you are in line continuation mode. The \out
> meta-command should be issued while sitting at an initial prompt "=#".
>
> Being in line-continuation mode means you are typing something else above it
> that doesn't constitute a full command - and you are still not showing us
> what that is. This is the reason I asked for basically a self-contained
> example.
>
> David J.
>
Being inside emacs buffer has nothing to do with the problem. I do it all the
time. As David points out, continuation in play.
