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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:25:38 +0900
From: Paul Lambert <paul.lambert@autoledgers.com.au>
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Subject: Issue with copying data from a text file.
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I have a procedure in place that copies data from a caret delimited text 
file into a table storing some information.

One of the fields in the table contains an item description which may 
contain item dimensions such as - 17" alloy wheels

The problem I am getting when I do my load is I believe due to the 
presence of the double quotation marks giving the copy the impression 
that it is to include the information following as a single text string 
until it gets to the next set of double quotes. As a result, I get the 
following:

AutoDRS=#       COPY deal_lines_temp_load FROM 
'c:/temp/autodrs_deal_lines.txt'
WITH DELIMITER AS '^' CSV HEADER;
ERROR:  value too long for type character varying(30)
CONTEXT:  COPY deal_lines_temp_load, line 87, column order_desc: "17 5 
spoke alloy wheels.^1291.18^117.38^983.69^1291.18^^C^^

The column as you can see is defined as a 30 character field, the load 
contains in this column ^17" 5 spoke alloy wheels.^

I note an option in the COPY command to specify the quote character, 
defaulting to double quote. The problem being a single quote will also 
be used in the data, as will other characters. Is there any way to get a 
copy to have no quote character? I.e. read the file and put whatever is 
between the caret characters straight into the appropriate field exactly 
as is.

TIA,
Paul.

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Paul Lambert
Database Administrator
AutoLedgers