I don't think anyone is complaining about being charged reasonable rates for converting data to the requested format. But I really don't think "run a query and

I don't think anyone is complaining about being charged reasonable rates for converting data to the requested format. But I really don't think "run a query and export the result" requires the skills and expenses you describe. It wouldn't be in a database in the first place if the government didn't at least occasionally have to run their own queries against it.