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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:39:39 -0600
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Stef <stef@ummon.com>
Cc: Keith Worthington <keithw@narrowpathinc.com>,
	pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Numeric and CSV under 8.0.1 ?
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:25:13PM -0400, Stef wrote:
> 
> 	well, I can understand that 3265 appears to be a
> string, but, I was under the impression that -everything-
> in a CSV format file could have ' ' around it? Is this not
> the case ?

See the documentation for COPY -- the default quote character for
CSV is a double quote, but you can change it with QUOTE.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-copy.html

-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/